Get the IP of a hostname using WMI (vbscript)

Purpose

find the current IP of a given hostname

approach:

use the wmi win32_pingstatus to issue a ping, and get value of the returnaddress property

sample code

strTargethost = "server1.domain.com"
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\")
Set PingResults = objWMIService.execquery("Select StatusCode,Address,ProtocolAddress FROM Win32_PingStatus where address = '" & strtargethost & "'")
For Each oTarget In PingResults
if oTarget.Statuscode   = 0 then
 wscript.Echo "Host:" & strTargethost & ", address:" & oTarget.ProtocolAddress
else
wscript.echo "Host:" & strTargethost & ",status: " & oTarget.Statuscode
end if
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