function will only run once then bombs out :( 1

[mikejc]

Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions...

I wrote a pretty basic function to check how many times a specific process is running on a machine. It passes the host name to a local variable called strComputerName.

Inside the function is a locally set variable called objWMIService. The first time this line is run it works fine, but any additional times it will error out if i pass a different host to it. I can re-run it many times if I never change what is set to objWMIService.

I included the output after the code...
please note if you try to run the code to reproduce, make sure u replace the ip addresses with ones valid for your network

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dim strComputer(2)

for x = 1 to 2

strComputer(x)="192.168.0.10" & x

ProcessChecker(strComputer(x))

next


function ProcessChecker(strComputerName)
set objWMIService = nothing
msgbox strComputerName
set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputerName & "\root\cimv2")
Set colProcesses = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("SELECT * FROM Win32_Process WHERE Name = 'svchost.exe' ")

wscript.echo "svchost.exe is running " & colProcesses.Count & " times on " & strComputerName & "."

end function

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The output will look like this for run through 1:

popup 1: 192.168.0.101
(used for tracing the error to make sure the host name gets passed through)


popup 2: 'svchost is running on 192.168.0.101 5 times."


Now the second time:

popup 1: 192.168.0.102
the second hostname still passes through fine...once again this is here for testing

popup 2: Line 16
Char 1
Error 0x8004100A
Code 8004100A
Source Null


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[tsuji]

Hello mikejc,

Try run only the x=2 case see what the script ends up with.
[tt]
call ProcessChecker("192.168.0.102")
[/tt]
regards - tsuji

 

[mikejc]

Thanks tsuji, when i called the second system first, it failed right off the bat. So perhaps it is not the loop, but a problem with it extracting daa from my other pc in my test environment. now i have something to go on, thanks!

 

[Jokada]

With WMI you must have Administrator rights on all computors you want to read info from.
Beware that you also have to execute your script as the global administrator.