Ping Multiple Windows Hosts using PowerShell

Are you are working in a windows environment and need to check if a large number of hosts are online? The below ps1 script may be what you are looking for. Place all hostnames to be checked in a text file called computer.txt and on one per line. Modify the script as necessary, then ‘run’ .

# ping-report.ps1
# Limited to < 100 assets in the computerlist.txt file or this will not run!

clear-host
$list = get-content C:\Users\user1\Desktop\computerlist.txt
$UpList = @()
$DownList = @()
$count=0


Foreach($computer in $list) {
    $testhost = Test-Connection -ComputerName $computer -count 1 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
    If ($testhost) {
        $UpList += $computer
        #Write-Host $computer $testhost.IPV4Address -Foregroundcolor Cyan 
        $count ++
        }
    Else {
        #Write-Host $computer $testhost.IPV4Address -Foregroundcolor Red
        $DownList += $computer
        $count ++
        }
Write-Progress -Activity "Progess" -Status "$computer Complete:" -percentcomplete $count
};""


#computers that are up
foreach ($computer in $UpList){

    Write-Host $computer $list.IPV4Adress -ForegroundColor Cyan 
};""

#computers that are down
foreach ($computer in $DownList){
   Write-Host $computer -ForegroundColor Red 
}