I need to write a procedure to collect data from several remote servers,

I use linkedservers and OPENQUERY to gather data from servers, but sometimes I lose connection to some servers or I simply can't connect them (e.g. remote server is offline)- and OPENQUERY results in time-outs in these cases.

So I wanted to check linkedservers connectivity first and then if it's successful run the query, if not just move on to next the remote server.

I tried to put OPENQUERY in TRY - CATCH but it still returned me time-out error, sp_testlinkedserver procedure also returned me time-out error.

I'd really appreciate any help.