Ping a list of host names and output the results to a csv in powershell

Question

I have a large list of hostnames I need to ping to see if they are up or down. I\'m not really that great at scripting but I managed to figure this much out:

Answer 1

I am a complete newbie to Powershell, so I took this on as a learning task, as I needed a quick and simple way to check a list of PC's for up/down status. These tweaks were needed to get it to output cleanly to the screen and to a txt file

$Output= @()
$names = Get-content "hnames.txt"
foreach ($name in $names){
  if (Test-Connection -ComputerName $name -Count 1 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue){
   $Output+= "$name,up"
   Write-Host "$Name,up"
  }
  else{
    $Output+= "$name,down"
    Write-Host "$Name,down"
  }
}
$Output | Out-file "C:\support\result.csv"