SQL_DBA- Ip Address Ping

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Ping.exe -t spiceworks.com | ForEach {"{0} - {1}" -f (Get-Date),$_}

Lets break this down real quick.

1. Ping.exe - That’s ping! powershell can use your CMD stuff just fine.

2. -t is as we all know, a continuous ping. can go before or after our hostname/IP address.

3. spiceworks.com is what we’re pinging.

4. Next up is a pipe (|) - We’re sending our information over to our next command.

5. Foreach is the next thing in our command here.

6. [“{0} - {1}” -f] - This is the text formatting, check the references below if you’d like to learn more

7. (Get-Date) - This is the date! it’s also what’s going into {0} in the text formatting above.

8. $_ - This is you taking your previous input from ping and putting into {1}