Pinging computers in Active Directory

[ajstan]

Hi all, I'm very much hoping one of you can help me with this

Its as title says, I have these laptops in Active directory which I want to ping, now what I wanted to do is export them into txt format and make some sort of batch file to ping them.

I have no idea how to do this, can somebody point me in the right direction pleasee

I have attached a screenshot so you guys can see the computers I'm trying to ping.

[burgemaster]

Try looking at the code for "ICTNUT's My Little Server Monitor" on here mate, we have a page setup for all our server, printers, switches, access points etc. We can easily see whats online.

[sted]

in ad users and computers go to the appropriate ou and right click export
get all the irrelevant info from the file so its just the pcnames with a blank line between

batch file in same folder as the txt file

for /f %%u in (listofcomputers.txt) do (ping %%u )

works for me not sure what use it is but it works

[Stuart_C]

If they are in differnt OU's create a new query (go to the "saved queries" folder) instaed of using the Search. You then get a list you can export to a text file.

You can then open the list in excel. Using Excel formula's you can create commmand for each PC (I use

 ping PCNAME -w 5 >> h:\pingres\pingres.txt

). copy and paste your formula into a text file and then rename it a .bat file.

I run this when my updates are runing to see which PC's are on, the results are then appended to a file for me to check when I get in.

[ajstan]

If they are in differnt OU's create a new query (go to the "saved queries" folder) instaed of using the Search. You then get a list you can export to a text file.

You can then open the list in excel. Using Excel formula's you can create commmand for each PC (I use

 ping PCNAME -w 5 >> h:\pingres\pingres.txt

). copy and paste your formula into a text file and then rename it a .bat file.

I run this when my updates are runing to see which PC's are on, the results are then appended to a file for me to check when I get in.

This is what I did and it worked perfectly

Thanks for yoru replys

[Dos_Box]

You can ping via hostname, but only as long as DNS is up to date and they are online.