Sometimes it is handy to run ping on the background to monitor network connectivity. Combine Microsoft PowerShell and the PsPing utility from Microsoft and you get a nice logging solution with shows on each line a timestamp and the results from the ping.
Ordinary ping:
psping -t -i 10 server1.example.org |Foreach{"{0} - {1}" -f (Get-Date),$_} | Tee-object -FilePath ping_log.txt
TCP port ping:
psping -t -i 10 server1.example.org:80 |Foreach{"{0} - {1}" -f (Get-Date),$_} | Tee-object -FilePath port_log.txt
Explanations:
- -t parameter means run until stopped
- -i 10 means ping every 10 seconds
- PowerShell foreach loops through the results add timestamp to each line
- PowerShell Tee-object is like Unix tee command which both saves the input and sends it to stdout
Credits for the Foreach ping solution: http://stackoverflow.com/a/40591307/350615
