I recently had a unique situation in which I needed to see if 4 different servers could ping a specific IP Address. Very often, we use win32_pingstatus to see if a remote machine is responding or not. But in this case, I needed to know if a remote machine could ping another remote machine. Routing was actually set up so that I could not ping the second remote machine from my laptop.

What’s cool is that you can use the –computername parameter in get-wmiobject when you look at win32_pingstatus.

I did change the name in a text editor to remote1 just for the sake of demo and public screen shots.

So if you wanted server remote1 to ping server remote3 you could do something like this:

Get-WmiObject Win32_pingstatus –filter “Address =’remote3’” –computername remote1.

This entry was posted on Friday, January 30th, 2009 at 12:10 am and is filed under Powershell. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.