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Remotely Obtain Serial Numbers For Multiple PCs At Once?

I located a vbs script some time ago were I get remotely obtain a machines serial number.

On Error Resume Next
Dim System
if Wscript.Arguments.Count >0 then
sSystem=Wscript.Arguments(0)
end if
ComputerName = InputBox("Enter the name of the computer you wish to query")
winmgmt1 = "winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!//"& ComputerName &""
Set SNSet = GetObject( winmgmt1 ).InstancesOf ("Win32_BIOS")
for each SN in SNSet
MsgBox "The serial number for the specified computer is: " & SN.SerialNumber
Next

pause

Works fine on most pcs. What I would like to do however is instead of checking 1 by one, I would like to check multiple pcs at once. Does anyone know how I can do this?

Thanks

Steve Knight

You could make it work down a text file. This could be done just in VBS (sirbounty will no doubt help you with that here shortly as...) or you can use a batch file to call your VB script, e.g.

@echo off
REM Save as SerialNums.cmd
set source=complist.txt
set dest=serials.txt
echo ------------%DATE% %TIME-------------->>%dest%
if not exist "%source%" then echo Unable to find computer list & goto end
for /f "tokens=1" %%a in (complist.txt) do cscript sernum.vbs %%a >> serials.txt
:end

REM sernum.vbs
On Error Resume Next
Dim ComputerName
if Wscript.Arguments.Count >0 then
ComputerName=Wscript.Arguments(0)
else
ComputerName = InputBox("Enter the name of the computer you wish to query")
end if
winmgmt1 = "winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!//"& ComputerName &""
Set SNSet = GetObject( winmgmt1 ).InstancesOf ("Win32_BIOS")
for each SN in SNSet
wscript.echo ComputerName,SN.SerialNumber
Next

Steve Knight

That works down a list in complist.txt, one per line of all your computers.

master_windu

ASKER

thanks

I must be doing something wrong

I created the complist.txt file and placed it in the same dir as the .cmd and vbs file

when I run serialnums.cmd, the cmd window appears with todays date and the word "dest"
the serials.txt file is generated but it only reads.....

Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved.

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master_windu

ASKER

Thanks. works great as long as i use ip addesses in the complist.txt file.

any way i can use machine names?

Steve Knight

Can your computer resolve the names when you PING them for starters I suppose? You might have to add them to the file fully qualified, i.e. name.domain.com?

master_windu

ASKER

all is well. I went back and tried some more machine names and I was able to get back a serial without the fqdm.

Thanks

Steve Knight

No problem, glad to help!

Steve