What have you tried?
What does your list of servers look like?
Post some code so we can look and make suggestions.
Update: Assuming you file has a server name on each line try the following..
- open the Server List file
- read in line by line
- for each line/servername ping the server (either OS ping with $result = `ping $_`;then do some regex on the $result or look at Net::Ping)
- close Server List file
The code below works for me using Net::Ping PS I havent done the open file and read in a list etc.
#! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::Ping;
my ($host,$rtt,$ip);
my @host_array = ("OSSTNGMCN01", "OSSTNGMCN04", "PROJECTX99");
my $p = Net::Ping->new("syn");
$p->{port_num} = getservbyname("http", "tcp");
foreach $host (@host_array) {
$p->ping($host);
}
while (($host,$rtt,$ip) = $p->ack) {
print "HOST: $host [$ip] ACKed in $rtt seconds.\n";
}
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