You're welcome

>Thank you Sergey. That was exactly what I needed. Cut the response time if the machine is not on from 25 to 3 seconds.
>
>Again, many thanks.
>
>>Try to ping PC in question using WMI
>>

>>loLocator  = CREATEOBJECT('WBEMScripting.SWBEMLocator')
>>loWMI	   = loLocator.ConnectServer()
>>lcComputer = "UpsMachineName"
>>loPing     = loWMI.Get([Win32_PingStatus.Address='] + lcComputer + ['])
>>
>>IF loPing.StatusCode = 0     && available
>>...
>>
>>