Chris Sheldrick's Blog » batch http://chrissheldrick.com/blog iPhone Dev, Fitness and anything else I can think of Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:47:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 IP Finder Helpful Batch Program for Getting IP Addresses http://chrissheldrick.com/blog/2010/02/05/ip-finder-helpful-batch-program-for-getting-ip-addresses/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://chrissheldrick.com/blog/2010/02/05/ip-finder-helpful-batch-program-for-getting-ip-addresses/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:55:17 +0000 Chris http://chrissheldrick.com/blog/?p=243 I made this little batch program to help at work. I figured that other people may have a use for it so here it is. It is used to look up IP addresses when you have a list of server/computer names. I used it on a list of about 200 servers and it took about 8 minutes, manually would have taken much longer.

You just run the batch file, and you can enter in a server name or ip address (I don’t know why you would want to lookup the ip of an ip…) and the batch returns the IP, or if it is not on the network, and also rights the name and ip out to a CSV (comma separated values) document that can be read by excel. If you have a txt file of server names (copy and paste the list from excel maybe?) then you feed the file to the batch program and it pings every server and returns the ip address and exports to the CSV file.

I spent a lot of time trying to find a way to automate the process of pinging a ton of servers. It was very hard to do from completely within excel so I just made the txt file from my server spread sheet and fed it into the batch program. I hope this is helpful to someone besides me, feel free to tweak it to your needs.

IP Finder

Well that is the program in all its glory. Enjoy!

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