cant connect to remote machine using WMI and Perl - perl

Question

I'm trying to write a script that will get event log information off of a remote windows machine using the win32::ole module and a WMI query. I can ping the machine but no matter what my WMI connection always fails using the ConnectServer() method. I'm pretty sure its not a firewall related problem. Here is my code:
use Win32::OLE qw(in);
use Net::Ping;
use constant wbemFlagReturnImmediately => 0x10;
use constant wbemFlagForwardOnly => 0x20;
my $computer = "10.10.10.15";
my $user = "Administrator";
my $pwd = "pass";
$p = Net::Ping->new();
print "$computer is alive.\n" if $p->ping($host);
$p->close();
my $locatorObj =Win32::OLE->new("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator") or die "ERROR CREATING OBJ";
$locatorObj->{Security_}->{impersonationlevel} = 3;
my $objWMIService = $locatorObj->ConnectServer($computer, "root\civm2", $user, $pwd) or die "WMI connection failed.\n";
my $colItems = $objWMIService->ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_NTLogEvent", "WQL",
wbemFlagReturnImmediately | wbemFlagForwardOnly);
foreach my $objItem (in $colItems) {
print "Category: $objItem->{Category}\n";
print "CategoryString: $objItem->{CategoryString}\n";
print "ComputerName: $objItem->{ComputerName}\n";
print "Data: " . join(",", (in $objItem->{Data})) . "\n";
print "EventCode: $objItem->{EventCode}\n";
print "EventIdentifier: $objItem->{EventIdentifier}\n";
print "EventType: $objItem->{EventType}\n";
print "InsertionStrings: " . join(",", (in $objItem->{InsertionStrings})) . "\n";
print "Logfile: $objItem->{Logfile}\n";
print "Message: $objItem->{Message}\n";
print "RecordNumber: $objItem->{RecordNumber}\n";
print "SourceName: $objItem->{SourceName}\n";
print "TimeGenerated: $objItem->{TimeGenerated}\n";
print "TimeWritten: $objItem->{TimeWritten}\n";
print "Type: $objItem->{Type}\n";
print "User: $objItem->{User}\n";
print "\n";
}
Any ideas why my attempt to connect always fails? Thanks :)

Answer 1

The ConnectServer call has a couple of potential issues:
I believe it needs two back slashes.
And It has a typo: civm2 -> cimv2
And it might reveal more information by adding a call to retrieve the error information:
my $objWMIService = $locatorObj->ConnectServer($computer, "root\\cimv2", $user, $pwd)
or die "WMI connection failed.\n", Win32::OLE->LastError;