A. The Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes in Windows XP and later provide a Win32_PingStatus object that you can use to ping a machine. The following script, which you can download at http://www.windowsitpro.com/content/content/48449/vbpinging.zip uses this object to ping a passed hostname or IP address. Because of space constraints, some lines wrap to two lines.
' Check that all arguments required have been passed.
If Wscript.Arguments.Count 0 then
Ping = False
'WScript.Echo "Status code is " & objRetStatus.StatusCode
Ping = True
'Wscript.Echo "Bytes = " & vbTab & objRetStatus.BufferSize
'Wscript.Echo "Time (ms) = " & vbTab & objRetStatus.ResponseTime
'Wscript.Echo "TTL (s) = " & vbTab & objRetStatus.ResponseTimeToLive
You can modify this script to do whatever you need. Notice that I've commented out some lines (') that give more information about the ping attempt, but you can leave the lines in if the information would be useful to you. Run the script by using the following command:
Host savdalex01 contacted
You can find more information about Win32_PingStatus at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/win32_pingstatus.asp .