Mutts Nutts

Help !!!!!!!!!

having trouble plumbing some stuff together with my wmi scripts amy wmi gurus in here or people that spend way more time than is healthy in MSDN

Scenario is... I have my wmi scripts that I put together for our Sys admins that collect various bits of sys info using wmi classes (objOperatingSystem.Version; objOperatingSystem.ServicePackMinorVersion; objProcess.ProcessID; objProcess.Nameetc etc)

then collated all these into a basic hta.

The next stage that has me is getting the WITHIN Clause to work for WMI polling onder2:

i.e requests that WMI check every 10 seconds for changes that occur to instances of the Win32_LogicalDisk or Win32_Process classes . If an instance of the class is modified within the specified polling interval, a notification event is sent for each modification.

So here is extract from my code:

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Sub GetProcesses

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colProcesses = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Process")
strHTML = "<table border='1' style='border-collapse: collapse' " & _
"bordercolor='#111111' width='100%' id='Table1' >"
For Each objProcess in colProcesses
strHTML = strHTML & "<tr>"
strHTML = strHTML & "<td width='50%'>" & objProcess.Name & "</td>"
strHTML = strHTML & "<td width='50%'>" & objProcess.ProcessID & _

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So the 64 milliion dollar question is where do I plumb the WITHIN Clause into this.
My guess was directly after Win32_Process in the below line:

Set colProcesses = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Process")

But guess I'm missing some more plumbing somewhere as it aint working.

Or even better still am I heading the wrong way up a one way strasse and there is a better way of WMI poling.

Ohhh.. one more thing ... may as well get my moneys worth out of this post

Any ideas how to turn my hta into a web service, now thats the funky stuff i want to get onto

Cheeers all

David_Wallis

Hmm... pass.. do a search for WQL... however isnt it easier (messier!) to do something like..


But I found this example at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...g_with_wql.asp

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...hin_clause.asp

David

Mutts Nutts

Cheers david that link should do the ticket, I'm missing some wql statements, should be able to work out the correct syntax and structure from that


I prefer not to run scripts that echo to wScript (although they have their place) I mainly use cscript as my default WSH engine. At least in csript at least you can pipe it out to a file and make sense of the info, I hate echoing stuff in wscript, all those windows script hose boxes that you have to accept make me go .

Thats one of the reasons why I have moved most of the admin scripts into one hta and then output it to the DataArea table etc instead of the wscript.echo method and format it into tables and stuff.

Horses for courses I guess what you need your scripts to do for the task you need .

When I get past this boring/ tedious bit I can get onto the fun stuff of the web service ... I need to see if I can get an XML-RPC web service [ failing that SOAP ] not explored this bit yet.
Any good links again for this or sample snippets appreciated

let us Know if I can give anything back.. dont want to be all take, take, take

Cheers
Steve

David_Wallis

Steve,

if you save that as test.vbs, and type cscript test.vbs in a cmd prompt then it will output to the command prompt window so its ok for echoing /testing

David

Mutts Nutts

Hi David,

I do this vice versa... sometimes its a pain that the default script host is set to wscript thats why always set my default script host to CScript, so not needing to type cscript in front of stuff.
All different ways to skin a cat i guess .

Going to trawl google for inspiration and plagerism for writing this WMI poller and a web service

David_Wallis

you could just do it as an ASP page if you dont want to do it in a complicated way

Mutts Nutts

Ohh if only the end user requests were that simple

David_Wallis

LMFAO

Good Luck!