Hi

I want to ping multiple hosts from the powershell/CMD and needs to get information like host is UP or Down and host's IP adress.

In case host is down it should still return the IP address of the host.

If host doesnt exist then no worries.

I tried below command but its not returning IP ADDRESS for hosts which are down but EXIST.  

$Host = Test-Connection $server -Count 1 -Quiet -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue $ip = Test-Connection $server -Count 1 | select ipv4address -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue $ip = $ip.IPV4Address   if ($Host.ToString() -like "true") {       Write-Host "$server $ip is pingable" -ForegroundColor green     Write-Output "$server,$ip,yes" | Out-File $OutFile -Append   } else {     Write-Host "$server not pingable" -ForegroundColor Red     Write-Output "$server,$ip,no" | Out-File $OutFile -Append   }

Use this:

[system.net.dns]::GetHostAddresses($server).IPAddressToString

This works charm, however when host name is does not exist it gives below error on power shell screen, can we suppress it ?

i tried this but doesnt work. ($ip = [System.Net.Dns]::GetHostAddresses($Machine) | select IPAddressToString -ExpandProperty IPAddressToString -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)

Exception calling "GetHostAddresses" with "1" argument(s): "No such host is known"
At line:5 char:1
+ $ip = [System.Net.Dns]::GetHostAddresses($Machine) | select IPAddressToString -E ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : SocketException

This works charm, however when host name is does not exist it gives below error on power shell screen, can we suppress it ?

Yes:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/03/11/hey-scripting-guy-march-11-2010.aspx

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh847793.aspx

Check out this post in my blog: http://gozettabyte.com/tech-blogs/ping-multiple-hosts-with-powershell-and-return-useful-information/ Should be what you're looking for or close.