Having been asked plenty of times, here’s the type extension I added to create the CanPing property for the String type:<\/P>
<Type>
<Name>System.String<\/Name>
<Members>
<ScriptProperty>
<Name>CanPing<\/Name>
<GetScriptBlock>
$wmi = get-wmiobject -query “SELECT * FROM Win32_PingStatus WHERE Address = ‘$this'”
if ($wmi.StatusCode -eq 0) {
$true
} else {
$false
}
<\/GetScriptBlock>
<\/ScriptProperty>
<\/Members>
<\/Type><\/PRE>Note that this SHOULD be dropped into a standalone .ps1xml file as follows:<\/P>
<Types>
<Type>
<Name>System.String<\/Name>
<Members>
<ScriptProperty>
<Name>CanPing<\/Name>
<GetScriptBlock>
$wmi = get-wmiobject -query “SELECT * FROM Win32_PingStatus WHERE Address = ‘$this'”
if ($wmi.StatusCode -eq 0) {
$true
} else {
$false
}
<\/GetScriptBlock>
<\/ScriptProperty>
<\/Members>
<\/Type>
<\/Types><\/PRE>And imported into PowerShell using the Update-TypeData cmdlet. Then, just do this:<\/P>
[string]$name = “ServerA”
$name.CanPing<\/PRE>To see if it’s pingable or not. Hmm… bet this could be adapted into a cmdlet-like function which takes a list of names and only outputs those which ARE pingable…<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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