Howard,
Maciep is right. The broader scope of this script is not completed as of now.

Maciep,
I thought about that, but every time I have tried this on previous scripts it makes the script run an EXTEMELY LONG time. Not something I want to do with this script if it can be helped. I seem to get an error that the machine can not be contacted if the machine is off and the script does not abend. Due to this I dont think I really HAVE to ping the machine.