Hi,

I have been tasked with remotely administrating a number of windows
2000 servers. I have to set up 200 Oracle ODBC DSNs on each machine and
have written a batch file which allows me to do so.

However, I now need some means of remotely determining if these ODBC
connections are valid (i.e. recreating the "test connection" facility
which is available in windows).

I have been considering using Perl to do this but am unsure of the
feasibility of this task. The servers do not have Perl installed so I
would need to remotely query the ODBC connections on each server.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Many Thanks,

ST.

Very easy do it, you have at least 3options
1. Make it executable and log to a share folder, schedule the executables
2. Usw module Win32::OLE to give a remote command through wmi
3. use the iss a smal site just to give a command to any host with CGI
module