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Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook
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Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook

by Mike Pfeiffer
July 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
480 pages
11h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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Verifying server connectivity

When writing your own monitoring and troubleshooting scripts, you need a way to verify that remote systems are online and responding. This can be useful when building a script that needs to poll servers on a regular basis, or to do a routine check within a script to verify that a server is online before invoking one or more commands. In this recipe, we'll take a look at how you can use the shell to verify connectivity of remote servers.

How to do it...

  1. To verify that a remote system is available, use the Test-Connection cmdlet:
    Test-Connection -ComputerName mbx1
  2. The -ComputerName parameter accepts an array of arguments, so you can test multiple systems at once by specifying multiple server names separated by a comma: ...
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