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Question

Hi I have to ping several IP adresses on a regular basis. Therefore I would like to create an Applescript application that will run terminal and ping the specified IPs so that I can see the results. Any ideas on how to best complete this?

Answer 1

This script will prompt you to enter the number of times you want to ping each server. You'll need to specify the servers to ping in the "set serverAddresses..." line. It writes the results of each ping to a text file on your desktop and opens the file when finished. The next time you run the script if the text file exists it deletes it first.
set theDesktop to (path to desktop)
set serverAddresses to {"www.microsoft.com", "www.apple.com", "www.cnet.com"}
set pingTimes to text returned of (display dialog "Ping each server how many times?" default answer "1" giving up after 10)
tell application "Finder"
if exists file (theDesktop & "ping replies.txt" as string) then
delete file (theDesktop & "ping replies.txt" as string)
end if
set fileID to (open for access file (theDesktop & "ping replies.txt" as string) with write permission)
repeat with aServer in serverAddresses
try
set pingReply to (do shell script "ping -c " & pingTimes & " " & aServer)
on error
set pingReply to "No reply from server " & aServer
end try
write (pingReply & return & return & "########################" & return & return) to fileID
end repeat
close access fileID
open file (theDesktop & "ping replies.txt" as string)
end tell
Robert