Searching for script to email results of pinging printers 1

[Sonk]

We have 300 printers on our rs6000 and lately some of our older (but heavily used) IBM printers have lost the polling signal and need to be reset.

I would love to be able to find a script that will email me (sendmail) when any of these printers cannot be pinged.

Thank you!

 

[sendhilk]

You can check the exit status of each ping command using the shell variable $?. 0 is a successful ping, non-zero (usually 1) is a failed ping. So you could do

ping XXX.XX.X.XX 5
[ $? != 0 ] && echo "Server XXX.XX.X.XX no reply" or have it mailed to u...

sendhil

 

[Sonk]

Thanks--that does work, but I would like to create a script to use in our cron. When I applied your script, I used the IP of one of our suspect printers. It gave me a normal ping response...just kept showing the bytes...but did not stop. Any suggested tweaks for it?

 

[sendhilk]

use ping -c 5 xx.xx.xx.xx

sendhil