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

    $Output= @()
    $names = Get-Content ".\input\Servers.txt"
    foreach ($name in $names){
      if (Test-Connection -Delay 15 -ComputerName $name -Count 1 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue){
       $Output+= "$name,up"
       Write-Host "$Name,up" -ForegroundColor Green
      }
      else{
        $Output+= "$name,down"
        Write-Host "$Name,down" -ForegroundColor Red
      }
    }
    $Output | Out-file ".\output\result.csv"

This is a tad cleaner, and includes the original foreground options but, BTW, the 'delay' switch seems to be ignored -PB