title: How to retrieve ping data through a command line?
body: <p>Is it possible to retrieve the data output when you type ping in the command line? </p>
  
  <p>Currently, we have existing servers that we check daily by typing ping (IP address) in the command line but only during at the start of the day. We would only be notified if the server is down once the user notifies us. The manual thing to do is to do a continuous ping and do a timely check of whether it was disconnected or not. </p>
  
  <p>I would like to create something that would give out a prompt (while doing a continuous ping in the background) once the command line declares that there's a "request time out", intermittent connection, etc. So that there wouldn't be a need to manually check the status of the connection. </p>