How do I get information from another computer using vbscript?

[SteveMe]

CreateObject("WScript.NetWork")

The above gets the local machine. Please advise

 

[PScottC]

What exactly do you want from the remote machine? Some things you can do and some you can't. What information do you need to get back?

PSC

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[SteveMe]

Amount of Disk space
amount of free disk space

for all drives c, d, e

computer name

 

[EBGreen]

For the disk information you can query WMI on the remote machine. Look at the .Size and .FreeSpace properties of the Win32_LogicalDisk class. To get the machine name if you know the ip address you can shell out to ping or nslookup either one.

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[markdmac]

http://www.microsoft.com/scripting

http://www.thespidersparlor.com/vbscript

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[PScottC]

While you're at the MS link, download Script-O-Matic. You'll find it to be greate assisance in writing WMI scripts.

PSC

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[WhoKilledKenny]

Here is a sample script for getting freespace. Change the "." in strComputer to "computername" for remote system.

Const CONVERSION_FACTOR = 1048576
strComputer = "computername"
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts://" & strComputer)
Set colLogicalDisk = objWMIService.InstancesOf("Win32_LogicalDisk")
wscript.Echo strComputer
For Each objLogicalDisk In colLogicalDisk
FreeMegaBytes = objLogicalDisk.FreeSpace / CONVERSION_FACTOR
Wscript.Echo objLogicalDisk.DeviceID & " " & Int(FreeMegaBytes)
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