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Change the time out for the Ping

I am using the powershell to perform ping test. Below is the script. I want to increase the timeout to 10 seconds from 3 seconds. Is it that I need to change the 'timeout=3000' to 'timeout=10000'?

Function PingComp([string]$sComp) {
  $vRet = Get-WmiObject -Query "Select * From Win32_PingStatus Where Address = '$sComp' and timeout=3000"

  if ($vRet) {
    if ($vRet.StatusCode -eq 0) {
      LogMessage "${sComp}|Computer responded|$($vRet.ResponseTime) ms"
    } else {
      LogMessage "${sComp}|Computer did not respond"
    }
  } else{
    LogMessage "${sComp}|ERROR|Null value returned"
  }
}

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Joe Winograd

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gd6627

Where do I define the server ?

Shaun Vermaak

PingComp is a function. Run the script then you will have PingComp loaded

After that run

PingComp SomeServer

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gd6627

This is what I get?

Function PingComp([string]$sComp) {
$vRet = Get-WmiObject -Query "Select * From Win32_PingStatus Where Address = '$sComp' and timeout=3000"

if ($vRet) {
if ($vRet.StatusCode -eq 0) {
LogMessage "${sComp}|Computer responded|$($vRet.ResponseTime) ms"
} else {
LogMessage "${sComp}|Computer did not respond"
}
} else{
LogMessage "${sComp}|ERROR|Null value returned"
}
}
pingComp OAk-dc-v01
LogMessage : The term 'LogMessage' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path
was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:6 char:7
+ LogMessage "${sComp}|Computer responded|$($vRet.ResponseTime) m ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (LogMessage:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundExceptions is what I get ?

Joe Winograd

The original question is: "I want to increase the timeout to 10 seconds from 3 seconds. Is it that I need to change the 'timeout=3000' to 'timeout=10000'?"

The answer to that is yes, since the timeout parameter is in milliseconds, and the first post answers it, worthy as the Accepted Solution. The second post shows a test run of the script and is very helpful, worthy as an Assisted Solution. Splitting the points evenly between those two experts. Follow-on questions are not by the OP, so not including comments about them as solutions.