How to check for COM+ components????

I need to write a console app that takes a string as imput parameter. This parameter is the name of a component in COM+. I need to check if this component is registered and "online"

How can I do this? Does it make any difference if this app will run
on server A in my intranet, and the components are on COM+ on server B???

Help please
kind regards
Henrik

As I do it now I use:

VB Code:

dim obj as Object
obj = CreateObject("Myobj.MyComponent", "myhost")

But this only works sometimes. On certain component, I check the component services and the components are up and running, and yet it says "Cannot create Active X component"

Is there any better way? Or is there something wrong with the way Im trying now?

kind rgeards
Henrik

And even if I perform a shutdown in the component services, I can still use the CreateObject with success on certain components... why???

kind regard
Henrik