Greetings. I am having trouble with the OLE ConnectServer method. I am calling this method within a loop, processing through about 25000 hosts, calling them via IP address. All is well except for 3 or 4 of these. For those, the method call does not return. I have to interrupt the script, remove the offending IP from the input stream, and then restart. The input IP's are all valid.

How do I handle this problem? Have I misread the Win32 documentation? To me it says that if I pass in 128 in the seventh position, the max wait will only be 2 minutes. Am I missing something in OLE?

I cannot fix the remote hosts. If this turns out to be an unavoidable problem in OLE, how do I best handle this in perl, enforcing my own timeout for the call?

Thanks. 


my $ole = Win32::OLE->new('WbemScripting.SWbemLocator') 
  or die "Can't start OLE";

# do some stuff to get a big list of ip addresses, hostnames, username
+, and passwords

foreach .... {
  # next if the ip does not ping...
  my $wmi = $ole->ConnectServer($ip, 'root/cimv2',
    $hostname.'\\'.$user, $pw,
     undef, undef, 128);
  # do some WQL stuff
  }

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In reply to OLE ConnectServer method does not return by bigcreeklinn

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