Ping Sweep

Description

Ping Sweep is a fast subnet ping sweep tool that logs live and dead hosts to a CSV file. It's built for quick network discovery across MSP client sites. Pass it a CIDR range, get back a list of live hosts.

Features

• Fast and efficient ping sweeps.
• Logging of live and dead hosts.
• Outputs results to a CSV file.
• Supports multiple operating systems: PowerShell, Command Prompt (Windows), and Bash (Linux/Mac).

Installation

No installation is required. Simply download the appropriate script for your operating system from the GitHub repository.

Usage

PowerShell (Windows)

1. Save ping-sweep.ps1 to a directory of your choice.
2. Open PowerShell and navigate to the directory where you saved ping-sweep.ps1.
3. Run the script with the CIDR range as an argument:

.\ping-sweep.ps1 10.0.10.0/24

Command Prompt (Windows)

1. Save ping-sweep.bat to a directory of your choice.
2. Open Command Prompt and navigate to the directory where you saved ping-sweep.bat.
3. Run the script with the CIDR range as an argument:

ping-sweep.bat 10.0.10.0/24

Bash (Linux/Mac)

1. Make sure nmap is installed on your system.
2. Save ping-sweep.sh to a directory of your choice.
3. Make the script executable:

chmod +x ping-sweep.sh

4. Run the script with the CIDR range as an argument:

./ping-sweep.sh 10.0.10.0/24

Output

The script outputs results to a CSV file named ping_sweep_results.csv in the same directory where the script is executed.

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Dependencies

• PowerShell: None.
• Command Prompt (Windows): Built-in utilities.
• Bash (Linux/Mac): Requires nmap.