Hi Everyone,

I am not very god at scripting and need a bit of your help.

I have a command hat I plan on using to get a remote computesr's OS version and installed patches. 

I can use a txt file with the computer name to be queried, but I thought it would be even easier for the batch file to ask me for input so I enter the computer name and once I enter it, it uses it for the next command.

Here is the code I have so far:

@echo off
set /p CompName= Enter name of computer?
%Compname% > c:\computers.txt
wmic  /node:@c:\computers.txt  os get Caption,CSDVersion /value /format:htable >> C:\OSnPatches.htm  & wmic /node:@c:\computers.txt qfe list full /format:htable >> C:\OSnPatches.htm

Can you help me get the CompName variable be used in the WMIC query?

Thanks in advance,

S

Batch files are obsolete. You should be using PowerShell.

wmic  /node:%compname% ...

Batch files are obsolete. You should be using PowerShell.

wmic  /node:%compname% ...

 save it as a PS1, I get it. Any help with the code?

There are numerous resources available to you to find pre-written scripts.

For example, there is a Repository link right at the top of this page.

There are numerous resources available to you to find pre-written scripts.

For example, there is a Repository link right at the top of this

Thanks, i have already spent 2 days searching for something I do not need to write from scratch, and the repository doesn ot contain what I am looking for.

Do you actually have further questions (if so, you'll need to start a new thread)? Yours has already been answered.

I also highly recommend that you drop batch and do all further work in PowerShell.

Batch files are obsolete. You should be using PowerShell.

wmic  /node:%compname% ...

 save it as a PS1, I get it. Any help with the code?

Thanks, i have already spent 2 days searching for something I do not need to write from scratch, and the repository doesn ot contain what I am looking for.

It is usually rare to find a pre-written script that meets your exact specifications.

In these cases, you will need to look for examples of scripts that do things like what you want, and then customize to your specifications.

The purpose of this forum to answer scripting questions, not to deliver pre-written scripts to requested specifications. If you need for someone to write code for you, it would be appropriate to pay a consultant.

Here is what I got trying to put together a script to read the patches on a remote PC:

$computer = gc env:computername
$computers= get-content -path c:\computer.txt
$csvfile = "c:\name.csv"
foreach ($computer in $computers) {Get-WmiObject -Class WIN32_QuickFixEngineering | Select-Object "Caption","CSName","Description","InstalledBy","InstalledOn" |ConvertTo-HTML | Out-File $csvfile}

I do get the results, but I get them from the local machine and not the remote one. What am I doing wrong trying to get the computer name from the c:\computer.txt file?

Thanks again for the help.

You need to use the -ComputerName parameter of Get-WmiObject.

http://ss64.com/ps/get-wmiobject.html

Thank. I'm just starting to learn, but got a task to do this stuff. Will need to learn faster, it seems.

There is no such thing as learning faster.  Learning is a biochemical process that operates according to the laws of chemistry and physics.  You can only be healthy and study carefully.  The learning happens at its own pace.

Trying to jam 10 pounds into a 5 pound bag never works.