Understanding WMI scripting / Alain Lissoir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lissoir, Alain.

Series:

HP Technologies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Operating systems (Computers).

Programming languages (Electronic computers).

Microsoft Windows (Computer file).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (623 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ;aBoston : Digital Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 pro

Contents:

Front Cover; Understanding WMI Scripting; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; List of Samples; List of Tables; Chapter 1. Windows Script Host; 1.1 Objective; 1.2 Some scripting history; 1.3 What is Windows Script Host?; 1.4 The run-time parameters; 1.5 Windows Script Host Object Model; 1.6 Features coming from the WSH COM components; 1.7 Features coming from the use of XML in WSH; 1.8 Controlling the WSH script execution; 1.9 Encrypting WSH script code; 1.10 Debugging WSH scripts; 1.11 Summary; 1.12 Useful Internet URLs; Chapter 2. Starting with WMI

2.1 Objective2.2 What is the DMTF?; 2.3 What is WBEM?; 2.4 What is CIM?; 2.5 What is a MOF file?; 2.6 What is xmlCIM?; 2.7 The supported platforms; 2.8 The Microsoft CIM implementation: WMI; 2.9 Let's be more practical; 2.10 Summary; 2.11 Useful Internet URLs; Chapter 3.The WMI Query Language; 3.1 Objective; 3.2 The WMI query language; 3.3 Extended WQL; 3.4 Summary; Chapter 4. Scripting with WMI; 4.1 Objective; 4.2 The WMI object path; 4.3 The WMI moniker; 4.4 Exploring the WMI scripting API; 4.5 Browsing the namespaces in the CIM repository; 4.6 A script to explore the CIM repository

4.7 SummaryChapter 5.Advanced WMI Scripting Techniques; 5. I Objective; 5.2 Working with CIM instances asynchronously; 5.3 Error handling with WMI scripting; 5.4 WMI DateTime Helper; 5.5 WMI extension for ADSI; 5.6 Representing WMI data in XML; 5.7 Detecting changes with the Refresher object; 5.8 Summary; Chapter 6. The WMI Events Scripting; 6.1 Objective; 6.2 Event notification; 6.3 Using the permanent event consumers; 6.4 The permanent consumer registrations in the CIM repository; 6.5 Scripting temporary event consumers; 6.6 Going further with event scripting; 6.7 Summary; 6.8 What's next?

6.9 Useful Internet URLsIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-281-07798-4

9786611077983

0-08-052010-3

OCLC:

476108668