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Script to monitor pings & CPU performance
Hi,
Can someone help me build a little script that achieves the following? My programming/PowerShell skills are very limited! 
This is to be run on a Windows Server 2012 R2 server. The following is what I have so far, built around the Test-Connection command, trying to determine what processes might be affecting ping response times.
# Continuous ping of a workstation
while (1) {
# If response time > 4ms OR no response, then check highest CPU processes
if($pingPC = Test-Connection PIA-W007 -Count 1) && ResponseTime <= 4ms {
# append to text file TimeStamp and ResponseTime
} else {
# append to text file TimeStamp and ResponseTime
# Get-Process | Sort CPU
# append to text file the processes taking highest CPU
}
}
Can you try below script ?
while (1) { $PingPC = Test-Connection "PIA-W007" -Count 1 -Delay 2 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue $ResponseTimeStr = if($pingPC -ne $null) { $pingPC.ResponseTime } else {"No Response"} $Result = ("{0} - {1}" -f (Get-Date), $ResponseTimeStr) # If response time > 4ms OR no response, then check highest CPU processes if($pingPC -eq $null -or $pingPC.ResponseTime -gt 4) { # append to text file the processes taking top 5 highest CPU $top5CPUsage = ((Get-Process | Sort CPU -Descending | Select -First 5 | Select -expand ProcessName) -join ",") $Result = ("{0} - {1}" -f $Result, $top5CPUsage) } Write-Progress -Activity "Ping Status: $($Result)" -Status "Pinging" # append to text file Add-Content -path c:\ping_log.txt $Result }
Can you try below script ?
while (1) { $PingPC = Test-Connection "PIA-W007" -Count 1 -Delay 2 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue $ResponseTimeStr = if($pingPC -ne $null) { $pingPC.ResponseTime } else {"No Response"} $Result = ("{0} - {1}" -f (Get-Date), $ResponseTimeStr) # If response time > 4ms OR no response, then check highest CPU processes if($pingPC -eq $null -or $pingPC.ResponseTime -gt 4) { # append to text file the processes taking top 5 highest CPU $top5CPUsage = ((Get-Process | Sort CPU -Descending | Select -First 5 | Select -expand ProcessName) -join ",") $Result = ("{0} - {1}" -f $Result, $top5CPUsage) } Write-Progress -Activity "Ping Status: $($Result)" -Status "Pinging" # append to text file Add-Content -path c:\ping_log.txt $Result }- Thank you very much!
This script is running well. I just added "Start-Sleep -Seconds 1" to the end of the while loop.
