Understanding WMI Scripting (eBook)

Exploiting Microsoft's Windows Management Instrumentation in Mission-Critical Computing Infrastructures

Alain Lissoir (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2003 | 1. Auflage
580 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-052010-0 (ISBN)

Infos

"Understanding WMI Scripting explains to Windows and Exchange Administrators how they can use the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) scriptable technology available in these products to ease their day-to-day management tasks. Under Windows.NET and Exchange 2000 (SP2), Microsoft is making solid enhancements in WMI. This will dramatically extend the scripting and manageability capabilities of Windows and Exchange. Illustrated with more than three hundred samples, the book links practical problems encountered by administrators to applicable scriptable solutions. Lissoir focuses not on MI programming aspects for developers but on how administrators can use what is available in Windows and Exchange for their admin work. WMI is a very important topic under Windows.NET and Exchange 2000 (SP2), so this book provides real added value to Windows/Exchange administrators. Although Exchange relies on Windows, no other book combines coverage of Windows and Exchange.

?Fine tune management of Windows servers
?Achieve better system management and customize critical operations
?Access hundreds of usable scripts in book and downloadable from web"

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Understanding WMI Scripting 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 8
Foreword 14
Preface 16
Acknowledgments 20
List of Figures 26
List of Samples 32
List of Tables 40
Chapter 1. Windows Script Host 44
1.1 Objective 44
1.2 Some scripting history 44
1.3 What is Windows Script Host? 48
1.4 The run-time parameters 52
1.5 Windows Script Host Object Model 54
1.6 Features coming from the WSH COM components 66
1.7 Features coming from the use of XML in WSH 91
1.8 Controlling the WSH script execution 122
1.9 Encrypting WSH script code 153
1.10 Debugging WSH scripts 157
1.11 Summary 159
1.12 Useful Internet URLs 160
Chapter 2. Starting with WMI 162
2.1 Objective 162
2.2 What is the DMTF? 162
2.3 What is WBEM? 165
2.4 What is CIM? 166
2.5 What is a MOF file? 187
2.6 What is xmlCIM? 194
2.7 The supported platforms 194
2.8 The Microsoft CIM implementation: WMI 196
2.9 Let's be more practical 228
2.10 Summary 248
2.11 Useful Internet URLs 249
Chapter 3.The WMI Query Language 250
3.1 Objective 250
3.2 The WMI query language 250
3.3 Extended WQL 308
3.4 Summary 309
Chapter 4. Scripting with WMI 310
4.1 Objective 310
4.2 The WMI object path 311
4.3 The WMI moniker 312
4.4 Exploring the WMI scripting API 329
4.5 Browsing the namespaces in the CIM repository 398
4.6 A script to explore the CIM repository 407
4.7 Summary 422
Chapter 5.Advanced WMI Scripting Techniques 424
5. I Objective 424
5.2 Working with CIM instances asynchronously 424
5.3 Error handling with WMI scripting 449
5.4 WMI DateTime Helper 473
5.5 WMI extension for ADSI 480
5.6 Representing WMI data in XML 490
5.7 Detecting changes with the Refresher object 495
5.8 Summary 503
Chapter 6. The WMI Events Scripting 504
6.1 Objective 504
6.2 Event notification 504
6.3 Using the permanent event consumers 534
6.4 The permanent consumer registrations in the CIM repository 551
6.5 Scripting temporary event consumers 553
6.6 Going further with event scripting 567
6.7 Summary 597
6.8 What's next? 597
6.9 Useful Internet URLs 598
Index 600

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.3.2003
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Betriebssysteme / Server ► Windows
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
• ISBN-10: 0-08-052010-3 / 0080520103
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-052010-0 / 9780080520100