ping multiple IP's using bash?

As your ip range has no symmetry and there are only 10 nodes, I would suggest to list them in a text file. I am considering the file containing the list is list.txt which contains list of ip one at each line as shown below,

10.12.13.14
172.15.48.3
192.168.45.54
...
48.114.78.227

You can use this script,

#!/bin/bash
# Program name: pingall.sh
date
cat /path/to/list.txt |  while read output
do
    ping -c 1 "$output" > /dev/null
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "node $output is up" 
    else
    echo "node $output is down"
    fi
done

To update the running status of your nodes at an interval of 30 mins use at crontab,

*/30 * * * * /path/to/pingall.sh > /path/to/log.txt

Output of log.txt

$ cat /path/to/log.txt
Fri Jan 31 15:06:01 IST 2014
node 10.12.13.14 is up
node 172.15.48.3 is up
node 192.168.45.54 is up
...
node 48.114.78.227 is down

Assume that you have 5 IP's( to reduce the answer only) then you can ping them with

#!/usr/bin/bash    
for i in xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx xxx.xxx.xxx.xxxx 
do
ping -c 5 $i
done

Note: Not curl brackets , No Commas(,) between IP's.

Hope that helps.

Ex:

[raja @ scripts]$ cat ping.sh
for i in 74.125.236.70  98.139.183.24  65.55.206.228  91.189.94.156 198.252.206.24
do
ping -c 5 $i 
done 
[raja @ scripts]$ ./ping.sh
PING 74.125.236.70 (74.125.236.70) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 74.125.236.70: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=11.5 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.236.70: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=11.0 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.236.70: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=10.9 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.236.70: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 time=16.5 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.236.70: icmp_seq=5 ttl=128 time=18.2 ms

--- 74.125.236.70 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4025ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 10.966/13.682/18.291/3.120 ms
PING 98.139.183.24 (98.139.183.24) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 98.139.183.24: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=244 ms
64 bytes from 98.139.183.24: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=253 ms
64 bytes from 98.139.183.24: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=255 ms
64 bytes from 98.139.183.24: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 time=251 ms
64 bytes from 98.139.183.24: icmp_seq=5 ttl=128 time=243 ms

--- 98.139.183.24 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4251ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 243.511/249.623/255.275/4.674 ms
PING 65.55.206.228 (65.55.206.228) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 10.22.96.94 icmp_seq=5 Packet filtered

--- 65.55.206.228 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet loss, time 14002ms

PING 91.189.94.156 (91.189.94.156) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 91.189.94.156: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=240 ms
64 bytes from 91.189.94.156: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=240 ms
64 bytes from 91.189.94.156: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=240 ms
64 bytes from 91.189.94.156: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 time=240 ms
64 bytes from 91.189.94.156: icmp_seq=5 ttl=128 time=240 ms

--- 91.189.94.156 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4242ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 240.060/240.222/240.309/0.626 ms
PING 198.252.206.24 (198.252.206.24) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 198.252.206.24: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=237 ms
64 bytes from 198.252.206.24: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=237 ms
64 bytes from 198.252.206.24: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=237 ms
64 bytes from 198.252.206.24: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 time=237 ms
64 bytes from 198.252.206.24: icmp_seq=5 ttl=128 time=242 ms

--- 198.252.206.24 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4251ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 237.600/238.575/242.291/1.933 ms


#!/bin/bash
while read hostname
do
ping -c 1 -t 1 "$hostname" > /dev/null 2>&1 && 
echo "Ping Status of $hostname : Success" || 
echo "Ping Status of $hostname : Failed" 
done < host.txt

$ cat host.txt

host1.example.com
192.168.0.123
8.8.8.8
...
...
google.com

See:
http://www.thelinuxtips.com/2012/06/shell-script-to-ping-multiple-hosts/

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