Summary
This chapter has focused on issues associated with using WMI on remote machines. We started by demonstrating how to connect to the WMI service of a remote machine and retrieve and manipulate references to remote WMI objects. This was followed by a discussion of error handling with WMI and VBScript. We showed a variety of techniques and tricks that can be used to ensure that scripts run smoothly even when connecting to WMI over a network. In the final section, we considered how to write scripts that can perform actions on a fleet of machines specified by name or IP address. These issues were all illustrated with an examination of Win32_Process, a WMI object that represents the programs running on a Windows 2000 box.
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