Using the WMI Admin Tools to Check on Permanent Events

re: Using the WMI Admin Tools to Check on Permanent Events

Mustafa — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 01:28:28 GMT

I have a question guys. I tried to use the tool access my server remotely, with supplying www.myserveraddress.com in the machine name field. Is this the right thing to do for using it ?

re: Using the WMI Admin Tools to Check on Permanent Events

Knuckle-Dragger — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 15:48:25 GMT

Good stuff.

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jrv — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:05:27 GMT

@K_Shulte,@ed

Yes they have been around but not really replaced except for the code generator which generates class wrappers for VB and C#. I will post a link if I can find it.

PowerShell does this thing because the Management class does exactly that. It generates a wrapper for any class it can see. This is rule based code generation but this time it is built into the Net Framework.

CIM or OMI is the next step in this evolution. I have been waiting for it for some time now. OMI will now wrap the CIM spec in a set of implementation rules along with an access strategy.

Anyone has followed the development of XML over the years will understand how powerful standards movements can be.

What Admins are now seeing is the edge of a philosophical and experiential world that has been developing for decades.

We need to take the conversation for Admins to a new level. The developer community has been at that level of awareness for a number of years now. Admins can also gain from learning a new language. PowerShell is the gateway. The future, in my opinion, is unlimited.

Hubba! Hubba! Hubba!

re: Using the WMI Admin Tools to Check on Permanent Events

Ed Wilson — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:22:54 GMT

@K_Schulte yes the tools are old, but powerful and it is why they are still around. There have been many movements to write something to replace these things, but nothing so far. BUT if you think about it, in one way these things ARE replaced by Windows PowerShell. PowerShell does WMI EXTREMELY well and has made the class discovery tool nearly obsolete.

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K_Schulte — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:18:56 GMT

Hi Ed,

this toolkit is 10 years old!

Why have I never had it before??

Because I didn't knew it and I probably hat no use for it ... right!

But this is still an excellent way to look inside the box ( WMI event box :-)

Great!

Klaus.

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IamMred — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:08:12 GMT

@JRV cool thank you. I am glad you enjoyed the posting. You are also right, the tool rocks.

re: Using the WMI Admin Tools to Check on Permanent Events

jrv — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:16:48 GMT

Excellent blog post - excellent tool.