Hi, I need to have an easy to manage/understand batch file that will do this: Every morning at say 9am - Send a PING to 6 different static IP's. If the IP FAILS to respond to the PING i need it to e-mail me with either the name of the computer or the IP address that failed. i've searched and tried multiple scripts you as the forum have offered for other Ping troubles but they don't quite work for what i'm trying to get done here. Any help would be greatly appreciated

::== :: ping list and send FAIL email @echo off for /f %%I in (IPList.txt) do ( ping %%I > %temp%\# find "Reply" < %temp%\# > nul if errorlevel 1 echo her's where you send a report about %%I ) ::== ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

I havent tried exactly this one but i guess its worth a look. Its a program written in C++ that allows you to send mail from the command line: http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/joh... If you are using exchange server its not gonna work tho. This one seems to work with exchange, but its not free: http://www.febooti.com/products/com...