Greetings, all.

I have an OLE script I am working on. In a loop driven from a database, I am doing: 

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

# now in a loop for each ip,hostname,uid,pw set:
my $wmi = $ole->ConnectServer($ip, 'root/cimv2',
        $hostname.'\\'.$uid, $pw,
        undef, undef, 128);

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According to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa393720(v=vs.85).aspx, this method should be guaranteed to return, if not with success, then with failure, within 2 minutes. I do not always see that return. I am running this script for about 20000 hosts. Of these, a few do not return (ever) from this call. When I find a host for which this method hangs, I explicitly exclude that IP address.

I would like the script to handle this implicitly for me. What are simple ways to impose my own timeout on this method call?

Thanks.

In reply to What is a simple way to impose a timeout on Win32::OLE::ConnectServer by bigcreeklinn

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