Re: WMI GetObject Failing to return anything

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From: Charles Palmer (charles_at_ggi.cc)
Date: 09/04/04 

Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 15:22:55 -0400

Despite the wise comment, I found the problem to be false returns from name
resolutions. Systems that were unavailable, when pinged by name, returned
the IP address of a machine of a different name that was active. When trying
to establish a connection to the machine with the wrong machine name, it
gave an access denied and would just fail without any error. I still don't
know why my error handling wasn't able to report the problem, but I have
fixed the problem.

Thanks,
Charles

"Marty List" <bill.gates@sun.com> wrote in message
news:2ppu02Fo05b6U1@uni-berlin.de...
>
> "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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