WMI Script Demonstrations

M. Gallant 07/07/2003

Simple WSH vbs script demonstrations illustrating enumeration the Names and Values of Properties from the collection SWbemObject.Properties_ for various WMI classes. Requires WSH 5.5+ and WMI (Win98, NT4, 2000)

html applications (.hta)

Download and execute directly

hta application: Lists Win32_PerfRawData_Tcpip_NetworkInterface Data on local computer
hta application: Lists Win32_Process Information on local computer
hta application: Lists Win32_VideoController Information on local computer
hta application: Lists Win32_DesktopMonitor Information on local computer
hta application: Lists Win32_Processor Information on local computer
hta application: Lists Win32_BIOS Information on local computer

Cscript samples

Run each of these as WSH command-line scripts:
cscript script name

List Win32_Processor Information on local computer
List Win32_BIOS Information on local computer
Lists current processes info. on local machine (name, path, ID, priority, threads, size)
List All Adapters Information on local computer (Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration class)
List OS Configuration Information on local computer (Win32_OperatingSystem class)
List Adapters DNS Servers for relevant adapters on local computer (Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration class)

References
Windows Scripting Home
WMI Classes
Scripting in WMI
WSH Downloadable Documentation

Michel I. Gallant
neutron@istar.ca