You can see my version of it at http://www.kixforms.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=810
Maybe more that you are looking for, but it worked for me.

This was my shell command
 Code:
Shell 'CMD.EXE /c PING '+$Element+' -n 2 | find /i "TTL" >nul'


Where $Element was the server/device I wanted to ping
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