Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is the infrastructure for management data and operations on Windows operating systems. It is based on Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) and Common Information Model (CIM).
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Windows management instrumentation for dummies?
Please can someone explain Windows Management Instrumentation in simple terms?
Why it is important?
What you can do with it?
I've read the wikipedia page and am none the wiser :)
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Why are some Windows WMI counters available on some systems and not on others?
I am trying to measue CPU use per process with:
typeperf "\Process(SOME PROCESS)\% Processor Time" -si 1 -sc 60
The problem is that I have to do that on quite a few PCs and here problems start. ...
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Running a program on remote computer from a network share
Well going all in: assigning all my 72 point as bounty to this question!
How to run a command line program on remote Windows computers with out installing additional software (aka ssh). All ...
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Remote desktop and wmi
For some reason, after performing a system restore, when I try to execute a certain script while logged on using remote desktop, or by connecting to the computer via WMI, the script starts but then it ...
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WMI events stop firing after re-installation of the interfacae
I have a Windows service written in C# that exposes a WMI interface and fires events. Sometimes, after a restart of the service, the WMI events aren't fired anymore. I have four identical servers with ...
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Nagios SSH remote checks and WMI Check
I have install Nagios Core and I am using WMI Checks for Windows and Created a script to execute remote commands through ssh on my Linux machines.
When Installing Nagios there is an option to run ...
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Is there a way to see current environment variables for a process with WMI?
I have a weird problem where something is changing my path in my login session. The permanent path in the registry is not changing.
I wanted to monitor changes to the explorer.exe process's ...
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How to set printer permissions using PowerShell / some other script?
I need to update printer's permissions in a script, i.e. do the same as I would manually do this way:
Open Devices and Printers applet
Double-click the default printer (open its queue)
Go to Printer ...
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What is the most robust way to parse domain and username from a user string in vbscript
The user can input a string, so basically 4 options:
username
.\username
localcomputername\username
remotedomain.com\username
What is the most robust way to return the domain and username given ...
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Monitor hardware change events
I have a laptop that periodically notifies me that some piece of hardware was installed/removed by playing the little ba-dum sound. I have no idea what hardware is changing - I am not adding or ...
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Can we write a SINGLE query for retrieving PROPERTIES from TWO CLASSES in WMIC?
I want to retrieve the data from multiple classes in single query in WMIC.
I know that it wont be possible in WMI. But somewhere i feel it can be possible in wmic.
also i am able to retrieve and push ...
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Trying to allow Remote Desktop connections via wmic command line but everytime Windows return me an error
I'm working on a project that I need to allow Windows Remote Desktop connections with the wmic interface using the following command:
wmic RDToggle where servername=”ServerName" call ...
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How to associate a SATA HBA to a Physical Disk
I am, admittedly, very new to the whole WMI "thing". This "thing" is quite overwhelming and I'm not finding an answer to the question that I have at this point. I've found the best information for ...
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How to start/stop service on a remote computer with an out of sync clock
I'm working in a MS Windows Domain.
I'm trying to centrally (remotely) start and stop the W32Time service for a certain amount of time (to disable Time Server update e.g for two hours) then remotely ...
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How to retrieve the serial number of my NAS?
I need to retrieve the serial number of a NAS.
From another PC, I wrote:
wmic /node:x.y.z.k bios get serialnumber
but I get this message:
ERROR:
Code = 0x800706ba
Description = The RPC server is ...
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WMIC Path <what>? WMIC Class <what>?
There are all sorts of commands that WMIC accepts, such as
WMIC Path Win32_Battery
WMIC Path Win32_Processor
WMIC Class Win32_Battery
WMIC Class ComputerSystem
et cetera.
Is there any way to list ...
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Is it normal for WmiPrvSE.exe to consume 10% CPU non-stop?
Resource Monitor shows Average CPU for WmiPrvSE.exe is 10%. Is that normal? This is just a 64-bit Vista laptop with an Intel P7550 (Core 2 Duo @ 2.26GHz) and 4G RAM. It's not running anything special ...
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How to export WMI values to a file?
There is a way to export all the content off WMI from cmd interface to a txt file?
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wmiprvse.exe does a lot of disk seeking activity once every day
wmiprvse.exe process does a lot of disk activity, working with all files in system32 directory (according to filemon).
Any other process which wants to do smth with disk is very slow while ...
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WIN32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration does not report IP from PPP adapter
On a Windows 7 device, the following WMI query does not report back an enabled PPP adapter:
Select Index,MACAddress,IPAddress,IPSubnet,DefaultIPGateway,DNSServerSearchOrder from ...
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How can I expose my fan speed, cpu temp, etc to WMI and/or SNMP? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Collect temperature and fan speed with munin from Windows 7 PC?
How can I expose my fan speed, cpu temp, etc to WMI and/or SNMP?
Free solutions are preferred.
On ...
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Why does WMI Provider Host (WmiPrvSE.exe) keep spiking my CPU?
I generally keep my laptop on 24x7, and at the end of the day it's really annoying to have my thighs burnt because over overheating.
The overheating seems to be a result of WMI Provider Host ...
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How to extend a logical volume using Powershell
On Windows XP SP3, how can I extend a volume using Powershell on a remote computer?
I prefer WMI over Powershell remoting.
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Repair WMI on Windows 7 [closed]
I had a problem with my Microsoft SQL Server 2008, importing data and generating scripts, so I decided to uninstall it. When I tried to remove it, I got an error from the check screen. The WMI ...
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How to display an array of bytes in PowerShell as a joined string of hex digits?
I am using WMI to find out what my WWN (World Wide Name) is for my port on an HBA card. I can get the WWN back but it is contained as an 8 byte array. I would like to convert this byte array into a ...
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Remotely access log files with WMI
What kind of logs can I access with WMI? Is it just event logs or can I for instance somehow fetch my FTP server logs, Exchange Logs, IIS logs etc.
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access windows log files from linux
I'm trying to remotely access windows log files from linux.
So far I've found two different approaches.
Install syslog server on windows machine and let windows send log files to linux, read those ...
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domain users logon info
i want to know how to find list of domain users whcih entered at my PC (some local groups included domain groups and domain users can enter at my PC).
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Adding/Removing Users For Permissions in XP
I have some specific folders that I grant members of my team permissions to. So I'll share a specific folder and add them as permissions. But after they are done I usually remove them from the list ...
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What's the difference between the Windows Management Instrumentation and the Registry?
I just wanted to know if Windows Management Instrumentation uses it's own functions to get the data or is is using the Registry database.
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Is there a way to get access to a window handle in windows using WSH, or WMI or similar?
Is there a way to get access to a window handle in windows using WSH, or WMI or similar? I just want to flag a window as always-on-top. Ideally I'd use windows script host for this.
(Should also be ...
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Windows 7 Action Center messages via script
I would like to know how to read, via vbscript, WMI, Powershell etc -the new Windows 7 Action center messages that the user normally gets informed of.
I want to read all those messages on each ...
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I screwed my Computer by disabling my account using WMIC
I used the command--- path WIN32_USERACCOUNT where(name="user01") set disabled="true"
My account is disabled and Im running in safe mode just so i can get my question answered... how do I enable my ...
