hi everybody! i am using some code i found in this blog from M2 to monitor some hosts through a ping, and save in a file those IPs which are not reachable. this is the code: @echo off > badhost.log for /f %%I in (IPList.txt) do ( ping %%I | find "Reply" > nul if errorlevel 1 echo %%I Not reachable >> badhost.log ) I have unsuccessfully tried to save all the pinging output in a different log, besides the non reachable hosts. i mean, saving in another log file every ping performed by the loop: Pinging xx.xx.x.xxx with 32 bytes of data: Reply from xx.xx.x.xxx: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from xx.xx.x.xxx: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from xx.xx.x.xxx: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from xx.xx.x.xxx: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Ping statistics for 10.96.1.233: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms any ideas??? thnx a lot

@echo off > badhost.log for /f %%I in (IPList.txt) do ( ping %%I >> allIP.log ping %%I | find "Reply" > nul if errorlevel 1 echo %%I Not reachable >> badhost.log ) ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

well, yeah Mechanix... i tried that too, but the matter here is that pinging 2 times will take twice the time... i dont really have any problems with the time, but i heard that it is not very advisble to have a batch file running too much time, and this process would be running about 5 times a day... isnt there a way to use the same ping i use to find the replay (ping %%I | find "Reply" > nul) as to track all the pinging response?

@echo off > badhost.log for /f %%I in (IPList.txt) do ( ping %%I > %temp%\# find "Reply" < %temp%\# > nul if errorlevel 1 echo %%I Not reachable >> badhost.log type %temp%\# >> allIP.log ) ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2