Just a simple script thrown together to record the time and date of an outage on a server using ping from a Windows machine. You can view the data in Excel from this script if you set excel to separate the file using carriage returns.
@ECHO OFF echo Monitoring Server see output.txt for logged entries echo Ctrl + C to Cancel :Ping echo %time% %date% >>output.txt && ping -n 1 10.1.1.253 | find "time" | find "Re" >>output.txt timeout 5 >> nul GOTO ping