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List Agent Computer Response Time (Sp1)

Agents that fail to make a heartbeat contact within 10 minutes are going to be classified as unresponsive by Mom. There might be many reasons why Agents are slow to make a heartbeat contact and it is useful to check the general heartbeat performance across the entire population of Agent computers. As there is no default way to do this through the Mom console, this script allows an administrator to perform a check from a command prompt. Because the script uses the new msft_computer WMI class, it can be run from anywhere against any DCAM, assuming the administrator has the appropriate authority.

The msft_Computer class created in the Root\mom namespace when Mom Sp1 is installed has the following properties:

Name
Description
DNSName
Domain
Guid
isAgent
isConsolidator
LastModifiedBy
TimeAdded
TimeLastContacted
TimeLastModified Type

ListAgentComputerResponseTime.vbs

To use the script an administrator must be a local administrator on the DCAM server. The only parameter that has to be specified is th name of one DCAM server:

Cscript.exe ListAgentComputerResponseTime.vbs myDcamServer

Results

LastContact
Minutes
Computer Type Agent

12/11/2002 13:54:30
4
dom1\myServer3 PDC True

12/11/2002 13:52:45
2
dom1\myServer5 BDC True

12/11/2002 13:50:16
2
dom2\myServer2 Member True

Where 'Minutes' gives the amount of time in minutes since this Agent successfully contacted its DCAM

Please accept this script as is. Any feedback will be gratefully received at Debug@Huntland.co.uk