A simple, lightweight Bash script to check server status from a server.txt list using ping."

[u/Arun_kumar_95]

Hey everyone! 👋

Often, small setups don't need heavy monitoring software like Prometheus or Grafana just to check if multiple servers or IPs are up and running.

So, I built a quick, lightweight Bash automation script that reads a list of servers from a server.txt file and pings them automatically to check their live status.

How it works:

1. Reads line by line from server.txt.
2. Validates the entry using regex.
3. Sends a ping request and prints out whether the server is running or down.

Check out the snippet below! Always looking for feedback or ways to optimize it. 🚀

[u/ikdoeookmaarwat]

I have no idea why you would share a simple bash script with an image.

[u/kezow]

It would be better to use something that checks the health of the services running on the server. 

Ping is only checking that server is on the network but doesn't inform beyond that.

[u/terAREya]

I see no snippet 

[u/Baxmoke]

LGTM

[u/Cirked]

I don't disagree less is more, but you have to manage either a cron to run this, or manually check yourself?

Picking the free tier of uptimerobot, or similar, would surely save a headache here

[u/emprahsFury → u/Cirked]

what if server.txt is a fifo and we just dump server.txt into server.txt continuously? Would that work (no I won't try it myself).

[u/UptimeRobot → u/Cirked]

Thanks for mentioning us!

[u/xonxoff]

it would be helpful if this did some actual status checking ...

[u/PipeItToDevNull]

Jesus, this isn't even vibe coding it is just a straight AI hooked to reddit

[u/Charles1nCharge83 → u/PipeItToDevNull]

Pure slop... even if its not ai.

[u/theschizopost]

You spelled "running" wrong

[u/emprahsFury → u/theschizopost]

strictly speaking, when you use an adverb to modify a verb you should add -ly as a suffix. So he spelled running wrongly. Like you spelled wrongly wrongly. It's ok- dictionaries aren't prescriptive. You should consider switching to French though, where they are.

[u/ikdoeookmaarwat → u/emprahsFury]

> French

Based upon? Time in the screenshot tells you differently.

[u/emprahsFury → u/ikdoeookmaarwat]

Let the ai help you figure it out. "Consider switching to French," where their dictionaries are prescriptive. No idea why people insist on commenting that literally cannot understand either what their writing (grandparent comment) or what they're reading (you). And I'm incredibly sorry to tell you that the english localization is on the screenshot. So you don't even need to guess using the clock about where or what language is being used.

[u/Cyber-tech-432]

IO often takes time, why not just load file in memory or save in variable and set a timer to reload file every few minutes

[u/JohnnyricoMC]

ansible all -m ansible.builtin.ping

[u/Actual-Neighborhood6]

fping -f <filename>