Need help / advice

[.Kencs]

At work I support over 500 clients, and 1 client has around 300 machines, and they often ring for comms issues, now I need to know if there is a way to do either:

1) create some sort of batch file that needs to be like:

1 - Customer 1
2 - Customer 2
3 - Customer 3

and then when I select for example option 2, it will then list x amount of machines, I then press for example 5 (for machine 5) and it will ping it to test the connection, but I don't know how to write the batch file easily enough to do this.

or

2) create some sort of application which will continously ping all the IP addresses in a list every 1 minute or so and then alert me if 1 goes down.

For example:

Machine 1 - OK
Machine 2 - OK
Machine 3 - ERROR
Machine 4 - OK
and so on...

Anyone able to lend a hand with this?

Thanks in advance

 

[.Kencs]

Anyone?

 

[Grenache]

If your customers are using DHCP then the IP addresses will potentially change, you you would not be able to hard-code them.

If you can remotely connect to their network, then looking at the list of dhcp addresses allocated might be a starting point, or looking at the arp cache of a connected machine.

If you just want to routinely scan IP addresses, then have a look for the freeware tool IPSCAN as that will do what you need.