Archive for October, 2012
Log Ping Time and TTL using PowerShell
Posted by allenkwc in Technology, Windows Server on October 3, 2012
1. In PowerShell, enable remote signed Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned 2. Create following powershell script to log down the result
$ping = new-object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping $WriteLog = "ServerMonitorLog.csv" $servers = "www.google.com","www.carters.com","hk.yahoo.com" $FileExists = (Test-Path $WriteLog -PathType Leaf) #If No Log File Exists, generate header if(!($FileExists)) { Add-Content $WriteLog "Date,Time,Server,IPAddress,Time,TTL" } Foreach($s in $servers) { $reply = $ping.send($s) $now = Get-Date if ($reply.status -eq "Success"){ $result=[string]::Format("{0},{1},{2},{3},{4},{5}",$now.ToShortDateString(),$now.ToShortTimeString(),$s, $reply.Address.ToString(),$reply.RoundtripTime,$reply.Options.Ttl) }else{ $z = [system.net.dns]::gethostaddresses($hostname)[0].ipaddresstostring $result=[string]::Format("FAIL,{0},{1}",$z,"***") } Add-Content $WriteLog $result }