As I wrote on Thursday, I am battling with Windows Server 2003. Now I got a list out of our change management database, which sadly ain’t that accurate. So in order to get reliable information about the target systems (in order to do some accurate planning), I ended up writing a small vbscript which simply takes the hostname on the command line (cscript //NoLogo win_sp_level.vbs 10.0.0.5) and returns a csv-like element. ...
After some more crunching on my VBscript, I think I finally have a working script that runs through a csv-list I point it to and walk onto each system (by ip-address only sadly) and query the os and the Service Pack that is installed. The CSV may look like this: 1 2 3 Hostname;IP;Model;Description;OS;Service-Pack;BL;Priority epimetheus;10.0.0.2;VMware guest;File-Server hades;10.0.0.1;VMware guest;Core-Router After saving that one, and running a cscript //NoLogo win_sp_level.vbs you should find a completed list like this: ...