Hello,

I am trying to come up with a solution which will help me gather ssl
certificacte expiration date remotelly. So far the only solution that i
caould come up with is running the following command on remote servers:
certmgr.exe /s -r localmachine my >> \\server\share\exp_date.txt

I tried to run it via wmi but cant seem to get it working. If any one
has a better idea please post it.

here is the wmi code

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject _
("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2:Win32_Process")
errReturn = objWMIService.Create _
("cmd.exe /c certmgr.exe /s -r localmachine my >>
\\server\share\exp_date.txt", Null, Null, intProcessID)

You could use psexec from www.sysinternals.com

Cheers
Ken


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: Hello,
:
: I am trying to come up with a solution which will help me gather ssl
: certificacte expiration date remotelly. So far the only solution that i
: caould come up with is running the following command on remote servers:
: certmgr.exe /s -r localmachine my >> \\server\share\exp_date.txt
:
: I tried to run it via wmi but cant seem to get it working. If any one
: has a better idea please post it.
:
: here is the wmi code
:
: strComputer = "."
: Set objWMIService = GetObject _
: ("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2:Win32_Process")
: errReturn = objWMIService.Create _
: ("cmd.exe /c certmgr.exe /s -r localmachine my >>
: \\server\share\exp_date.txt", Null, Null, intProcessID)
:

unfortunattel remote shells are forbidden where i work so the only
thing i can use is wmi :(.

psexec would have done the job perfectly though

How is PSExec any different to what you were doing with WMI? Your WMI script
(as posted) seems to be invoking a remote shell via RPC...

Cheers
Ken

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: unfortunattel remote shells are forbidden where i work so the only
: thing i can use is wmi :(.
:
: psexec would have done the job perfectly though
:

psexec installs a service(then removes it)