I ran across this thread that helped me create a bat file to ping multiple computers and return the results to a text file (https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/c0cafc24-c9be-4f67-ada0-4bb05fb26e78/explain-the-batch-script-to-ping-multiple-computers?forum=ITCG)
But it only returns whether the state in alive.
The script works great, but I need to return the machine names in results. Can someone tell me how to do that, please?
Here is the script:
@echo off
set fnm=C:\tools\computers.txt
set lnm=C:tools\PingResults.txt
if exist %fnm% goto Label1
echo.
echo Cannot find %fnm%
echo.
Pause
goto :eof
:Label1
echo PingTest STARTED on %date% at %time% > %lnm%
echo ================================================= >> %lnm%
echo.
for /f %%i in (%fnm%) do call :Sub %%i
echo.
echo ================================================= >> %lnm%
echo PingTest ENDED on %date% at %time% >> %lnm%
echo ... now exiting
goto :eof
:Sub
echo Testing %1
set state=alive
ping -n 1 %1
if errorlevel 1 set state=dead
echo %1 is %state% >> %lnm%
