Re: WMI GetObject Failing to return anything

From: Marty List (bill.gates_at_sun.com)
Date: 09/03/04 

Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 18:59:45 -0600

"Charles Palmer" <charles@ggi.cc> wrote in message
news:ObzdSDIjEHA.3928@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I am working on a script that will run against all machines in a domain
and
> return some data about each machine through a WMI call. On about 10% of my
> machines, I am not getting any return. I have the script ping each machine
> first to make sure it returns as alive before I attempt a WMI call to the
> machine. When I make the WMI call to the machine to get OS version and
some
> other data, if I don't have On Error Resume Next, the script fails with
> GetObject failed. If I run the script with On Error Resume Next, after
about
> 5 minutes, the WMI call fails and the script moves on to the next computer
> in the list. The problem is, it doesn't run any of my logging or debugging
> code after this point until on the next machine. I can't even return the
> error message that is generated by GetObject. From trying to manually
> connect to the machine through other methods, I know that the problem for
> why the GetObject is failing is with the machine and I am trying to figure
> out what the problem is, but this question is because it won't even log
that
> it has a failure when trying to connect to WMI. I am running this script
> against about 500 machines and only pulling WMI on about 250 of them. Of
> those 250, I have about 25 that are failing. Since it is taking between
3-5
> minutes for each machine to fail, it is significantly increasing my script
> runtime.
>
> Any help or guidance that helps me figure out the problem or at least log
> the problem machines would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Charles Palmer
>

Without seeing your script, I'm going to guess the problem is on line 62.

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