win32_pingstatus doesn't work,,

@ RAJA 

Hi,

This works:

Get-WmiObject Win32_PingStatus -Filter "Address='PCNAME'"

http://lantoolbox.com/articles/performing-networking-tasks-pinging-from-powershell/

Any reason you're not using Test-Connection instead though?

http://ss64.com/ps/test-connection.html

That works, great

thanks Mike,

@@Raja

Cheers, you're welcome. Glad it worked out for you.