Leveraging WMI scripting : using Windows Management Instrumentation to solve Windows management problems / 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 (971 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Digital Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Leveraging WMI Scripting is the second in a series of two books dedicated to WMI. Understanding WMI Scripting (ISBN 1-55558-266-4), Lissoir's first book, explained to Windows Administrators the various WMI scripting techniques and manageability capabilities of this new Windows Server 2003 platform. Illustrated with hundreds of scripts and detailed tables, the book explained the underlying technology and how WMI can be put to work. Lissoir focused not only on WMI programming aspects for developers but on how administrators can use what is available in Windows for their admin work. If yo

Contents:

Front Cover; Leveraging WMI Scripting; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Some Useful Scripts; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; List of Samples; List of Tables; Chapter 1. The Windows WMI Providers Discovery; 1.1 Objective; 1.2 The WMI provider types; 1.3 WMI providers discovery; 1.4 Helpers for the discovery; 1.5 Summary; Chapter 2. The Win32 Providers; 2.1 Objective; 2.2 The Win32 providers; 2.3 Computer system hardware classes; 2.4 Operating System classes; 2.5 Summary; Chapter 3. The WMI Providers; 3.1 Objective; 3.2 The WMI providers; 3.3 Core OS components providers

3.4 Core OS components event providers3.5 Core OS file system components providers; 3.6 Active Directory components providers; 3.7 Network components providers; 3.8 Performance providers; 3.9 Helper providers; 3.10 Summary; 3.11 Useful Internet URLs; Chapter 4. WMI Security Scripting; 4.1 Objective; 4.2 The WMI security configuration; 4.3 WMI and Active Server Page (ASP); 4.4 WMI security descriptor management; 4.5 The WMI Security provider; 4.6 Connecting to the manageable entities; 4.7 Accessing the security descriptor set on manageable entities; 4.8 Creating a default security descriptor

4.9 The security descriptor conversion4.10 Deciphering the security descriptor; 4.11 Deciphering the security descriptor components; 4.12 Modifying the security descriptor; 4.13 Updating the security descriptor; 4.14 How WMI scripters are affected by the Microsoft security push; 4.15 Summary; Chapter 5. The Optional Windows Components and Application WMI Providers; 5.1 Objective; 5.2 WMI and some additional Windows services; 5.3 WMI and some (server) products; 5.4 WMI and some Windows applications; 5.5 WMI and some Enterprise Management software; 5.6 WMI and the .NET Framework; 5.7 Summary

5.8 Useful Internet URLsChapter 6. A Look Into the Future of WMI Scripting; 6.1 The .NET Framework and scripting; 6.2 Windows scripting environments; 6.3 Final thoughts; Appendix; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-281-79616-6

9786611796167

0-08-051012-4

OCLC:

476219422