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Making a PING with Delphi and the WMI

February 2, 2011 by Rodrigo | 36 Comments

Typically we use the IcmpSendEcho function or a component like

TIdIcmpClient to make a ping request from Delphi. Today I will show
you another way to do this using the WMI (Windows Management
Instrumentation).

The WMI class which allow you to make a ping request is

Win32_PingStatus, to use this class you only need to pass the
parameter Address value in your WQL sentence , the form of the Embarcadero MVP
Address parameter can be either the computer name (ACCOUNT-PC),
IPv4 address (192.168.154.102), or IPv6 address
(2010:836B:4179::836B:4179).
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1 SELECT * FROM Win32_PingStatus where Address='www.goo
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News Delphi 2010
Some of the advantages of use this class to make a ping is which Delphi Prism Delphi XE
supports IPv4 addresses and IPv6 addresses (Starting with Windows Delphi XE2 Delphi XE3
Delphi XE4 DWM
Vista) , and you can set the ping parameters in a single WQL sentence. FreePascal Geolocation
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For example if you want send a Buffer of 64 bytes (instead of the 32 OSX Oxygene RTTI
default size) and resolve the address of the host server you only need SMBios Tools
to write a sentence like this : TWebBrowser VCL
Styles WinApi WMI
XML XPath
1 SELECT * FROM Win32_PingStatus where Address='192.168

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37 end;
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41 //The form of the Address parameter can be either t TRANSLATE
42 procedure Ping(const Address:string;Retries,Buffer
43 var Translate this blog into
44 FSWbemLocator : OLEVariant; different languages...
45 FWMIService : OLEVariant;
46 FWbemObjectSet: OLEVariant;
47 FWbemObject : OLEVariant; ‫اﻟﻌرﺑﯾﺔ‬
48 oEnum : IEnumvariant; Български
49 iValue : LongWord; 中文（简体）
50 i : Integer; 中文（繁體）
51
52 PacketsReceived : Integer; Hrvatski
53 Minimum : Integer; Česky
54 Maximum : Integer; Dansk
55 Average : Integer; Nederlands
56 begin;
57 PacketsReceived:=0; Suomi
58 Minimum :=0; Français
59 Maximum :=0; Deutsch
60 Average :=0; Ελληνική
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61 Writeln(''); िह ी
62 Writeln(Format('Pinging %s with %d bytes of data: Italiano
63 FSWbemLocator := CreateOleObject('WbemScripting.S
日本語
64 FWMIService := FSWbemLocator.ConnectServer('loc
65 //FWMIService := FSWbemLocator.ConnectServer('1 한국어
66 for i := 0 to Retries-1 do Norsk
67 begin Polski
68 FWbemObjectSet:= FWMIService.ExecQuery(Format('
Português
69 oEnum := IUnknown(FWbemObjectSet._NewEn
70 if oEnum.Next(1, FWbemObject, iValue) = 0 then Română
71 begin Русский
72 if FWbemObject.StatusCode=0 then Español
73 begin
Svenska
74 if FWbemObject.ResponseTime>0 then
75 Writeln(Format('Reply from %s: bytes=%s t
76 else
77 Writeln(Format('Reply from %s: bytes=%s t
78
79 Inc(PacketsReceived);
80
81 if FWbemObject.ResponseTime>Maximum then
82 Maximum:=FWbemObject.ResponseTime;
83
84 if Minimum=0 then
85 Minimum:=Maximum;
86 BLOGROLL
87 if FWbemObject.ResponseTime<Minimum then
88 Minimum:=FWbemObject.ResponseTime; Andy’s Blog and Tools
89
Delphi – Neftali
90 Average:=Average+FWbemObject.ResponseTime;
91 end Delphi Haven – Chris
92 else Rolliston Blog
93 if not VarIsNull(FWbemObject.StatusCode) then
94 Writeln(Format('Reply from %s: %s',[FWbemOb Delphi sorcery – Stefan
95 else Glienke's Blog
96 Writeln(Format('Reply from %s: %s',[Address Delphifeeds.com
97 end;
98 FWbemObject:=Unassigned; Felix J COLIBRI
99 FWbemObjectSet:=Unassigned; Hallvard's Blog
100 //Sleep(500);
101 end; Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog
102 JEDI Windows API
103 Writeln('');
104 Writeln(Format('Ping statistics for %s:',[Address Peter Johnson's
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106 if PacketsReceived>0 then Reinvent The Wheel
107 begin
108 Writeln('Approximate round trip times in milli-s RemObject Blog
109 Writeln(Format(' Minimum = %dms, Maximum = %d Rudy's Delphi Corner
110 end;
111 end; Scott Hanselman Blog
112 Sip from the Firehose
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114 begin The Art of Delphi
115 try Programming
116 CoInitialize(nil); The Delphi Geek
117 try
118 //Ping('192.168.52.130',4,32); The Old New Thing
119 Ping('theroadtodelphi.wordpress.com',4,32); The Oracle at Delphi
120 finally
121 CoUninitialize; The TIndex
122 end; YAPB – Alex Ciobanu Blog
123 except
124 on E:Exception do
125 Writeln(E.Classname, ':', E.Message);
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February 2, 2011 at 2:37 pm
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As usual exceptional examples with very useful information! [on hold] October 16, 2019
On this example I could suggest you to change Soufiane Bra

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can make a ping from a remote machine using the WMI.

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Domingo
February 2, 2011 at 10:03 am

Muy bueno el código !!!

Gracias

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Rodrigo
February 2, 2011 at 2:41 pm

Domingo, gracias por tus comentarios.

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There is a problem with your code. If you try to ping a invalid files and folders using
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April 5, 2011 at 11:17 am
using WMI and Delphi

Rafael the problem is due (as you say) which the

StatusCode property return a null value which cannot be
translated to a valid status message, the code was
modified to handle this issue. try now and let me know
the results of your tests.

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Rafael Colucci
April 5, 2011 at 12:39 pm

OK .. the problem is gone now (i had already did

what you just did). But it seems to me that the
Status code is always null when an address is
invalid. This way, you will never get the error status
when you use GetStatusCodeStr. Every invalid
address i have tried gets a null status code.

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Rodrigo
April 5, 2011 at 12:56 pm

Rafael. try checking the value of the

PrimaryAddressResolutionStatus property this
value always return a valid code (not null) even
if the address passed is invalid, you can
translate the value to an string using the
GetStatusCodeStr function.

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Rafael Colucci
April 5, 2011 at 1:10 pm

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OK. Now it works perfect. You should

consider changing your source code also.
Thanks for you help and good job btw.

Rodrigo
April 5, 2011 at 1:15 pm

ok, no problem, glad to help you.

EMB
August 29, 2011 at 3:01 pm

Just had to use this today. (:

Gold as always.
Do you know any drawback of using this comparing to usual
IcmpSendEcho approach?
thanks!

EMB

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Rodrigo
August 29, 2011 at 3:48 pm

There is not drawbacks, you can get the same results

using the IcmpSendEcho function or the
Win32_PingStatus wmi class.

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EMB
August 30, 2011 at 10:40 am

Thanks! (:
the problem with IcmpSendEcho is that we should
not statically link to the library. Instead, call
LoadLibrary and then GetProccess, and if fails, try
again.
Sometimes, I just wanna a simpler code that work in
all target windows…

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Abraão
August 9, 2012 at 8:31 am

Hi Rodrigo, i would like of handle the timeout of the ping

request . Could you give me some tips in how implement it
using your source code?

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Rodrigo
February 7, 2013 at 12:22 am

Just use the TimeOut property like so

1 SELECT * FROM Win32_PingStatus where Addre

P.D : Sorry for the late response.

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Massimo Voto
June 23, 2013 at 2:50 am

Hi Rodrigo
Thank for good example. The ICMP of Indy on W7 64 not work,
and your example work for all target windows.

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víctor
November 7, 2013 at 3:46 pm

Muchas gracias por este trabajo!

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asqar
February 3, 2014 at 12:11 pm

Hi. thank you from your good example.

I have a question. How to change the port that is uses to ping
via this method?
Thank you very much.

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Rodrigo
February 3, 2014 at 12:25 pm

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The Win32_PingStatus WMI Class uses the ICMP protocol

to make a echo request, and ICMP does not use ports, so
you cannot set a port in a ping request.

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asqar
February 3, 2014 at 1:08 pm

Thank you from your answer

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Jorge Abel
April 30, 2014 at 11:13 am

Como usaria este codigo en una aplicacion Win32 usando

Delphi XE ???

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Rodrigo
April 30, 2014 at 4:09 pm

Hola Jorge, el codigo de ejemplo es de una aplicacion de

consola, si deseas usarla en una aplicaicon VCL solo
debes adaptar el codigo reemplazando las llamadas al
procedimiento Writeln.

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Olav
September 30, 2014 at 2:28 pm

This code is really nice. However if the pinged computer is

offline it takes ages to get a response. Can this be made
quicker? Any suggestions?

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Rodrigo
October 2, 2014 at 10:40 am

Try using the Timeout property if the Win32_PingStatus

class.

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Sean Roulo
November 1, 2014 at 7:43 pm

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Beautiful solution… pulled my hair out on making

IcmpSendEcho work… basically would return 0 even when I
could ping the host via command line. This worked flawlessly…
thank you so much Rodrigo… you are a rock star my friend!

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Rob
January 28, 2015 at 3:55 am

Great!really appreciate this, was struggling with the

IcmpSendEcho.

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dagobert
March 20, 2016 at 10:36 am

Hello rodrigo, many thanks for this example.

I use the response time for calculations. With fast local
conections the time is 1ms. Also i used more ping bytes. Do
you know a easy :-) way to show the response time for example
in micro seconds?
Many many thanks

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Rodrigo
March 20, 2016 at 11:23 pm

The ping accuracy of the Win32_PingStatus class is

milliseconds. I’m not aware of another class or function
which provides a better accuracy.

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Arthur Guimarães
June 22, 2016 at 10:36 am

Hi there I tried to use ICMP to ping a device on windows server

2012 and it takes 3 seconds to process Client.Ping; when client
is offline. When its done on a windows server 2003 client.Ping;
takes less than a second to inform the client is offline.
Do you know how long does it takes to process a ping through
your code WMI if client is offline?
Thanks

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Rodrigo
June 22, 2016 at 5:09 pm

NO, I don’t made that test before, but you can try
yourself.

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Volker Giese
October 24, 2016 at 10:59 am

Hi Rodrigo,

your code is the perfect option for my automatic backup

system, after I had trouble working with the ICMP approach.
Thank you

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Rodrigo
October 24, 2016 at 11:07 am

You are welcome.

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