Concurrently ping given IP and log the results with time stamp.

ping-logging.sh

#!/bin/bash

cd `dirname $0`
if [ $# -le 0 ]; then
  echo "Please set more than 1 arguments" 1>&2
  exit 1
fi

args=("$@")
argn=$#
timestamp=`date +'%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S'`
network=192.168.1
machine=$args


while true; do
  for i in $(seq $argn); do
    host=${network}.${args[$i-1]}
    rslt=`ping -w 1 -c 1 -i 60 $host | grep 'bytes from '`
    if [ $? -gt 0 ]
    then echo -e "`date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'` $host Request timed out." >> $host/${timestamp}.log
    else echo "`date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'` $host`echo $rslt | cut -d  ':' -f 2`" >> $host/${timestamp}.log
    fi
  done
  sleep 1m
done