Schedule a batch to ping at system startup and check if it's running from task manager

using system scheduler on win 2012R2 I would run the following bat file:

echo %DATE%_%TIME% >> C:\test\testschedule.txt

timeout /T 300 /NOBREAK

start ping 8.8.8.8 -t

start ping 208.67.222.222 -t

start ping 208.67.220.220 -t

the script runs fine if manually executed. the script seems to run fine if scheduled with a user with log as batch job local policy applied. The txt file gets populated at every restart. I would like to check if it's running on task manager (or an easy way to identify it with the equivalent of a process id written in the txt file). Could anyone give me a tip about how getting it done?

Malkavian

Posted 2015-08-17T22:44:36.873

Reputation: 11

wmic process where "caption='cmd.exe' or caption='ping.exe'" get ProcessID, CommandLine – JosefZ – 2015-08-18T09:14:43.047

thank you, and by the way, I forgot that starting the pings with: start ping, makes them visible in the task manager, so I already had a way to track them, but I like more your solution. – Malkavian – 2015-08-18T19:12:05.213

Schedule a batch to ping at system startup and check if it's running from task manager

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