Remote uptime with win32pdh

Tue Sep 29 14:08:48 EDT 2009

I'm new to python and I'm trying to write a script which takes the
computer name from the variable 'name' and gets the uptime.
What I have so far:
 query = win32pdh.OpenQuery()
 counter = win32pdh.AddCounter(query, r'\System\System Up Time')
 win32pdh.CollectQueryData(query)
 var1, val = win32pdh.GetFormattedCounterValue(counter,
win32pdh.PDH_FMT_LONG)
 uptime = val / 3600
 print "--> Uptime: %s hours" % uptime
That works just fine for the local system, but I'm at a loss figuring
out how to make it gater that data from a remote system. Any help
would be much appreciated!