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Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is an API for managing the Windows operating system on local or remote computers.

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Access Windows Server EC2 instance with WMI Exporter in Prometheus

does anyone know what i'm doing wrong here? i'm trying to access my windows-server 2019 ec2 node locally so i can successful collect metrics via WMI Exporter and point this at my prometheus instance.I'm trying to access port 9182 for WMI Exporter,…
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Is there a faster way to query a remote filesystem with WMI?

I am trying to recursively get all of the files — 5 or 6 files give or take — under the directory C:\YC. I am bound to one WMI call to a remote computer. I managed to do this call using the WQL LIKE operator but it's taking around 30 seconds, even…
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Supplying Data to WMI by Writing a Provider

I am new to c++ and I am trying to develop a WMI provider in windows. After few searches I have come across a documentation of MSDN (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wmisdk/supplying-data-to-wmi-by-writing-a-provider) I have followed…
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Get current memory utilisation of a process running on a remote machine with WMI

I want to write a VB script that will return the current memory utilisation of a process on a remote machine. I'm currently getting the info by greping the output of pslist.exe but that's not ideal.
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How can i programmatically find out how many resources a IIS server has and the traffic on each resource .. etc

I want to write a program to find out what resources an IIS server has and how many hits are there on each resource. The resource can be anything from a html page to files like sound clips, pictures , etc. I want to find out a list of all these…
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Remove-WmiObject - Delete User Profiles

Here is the code to remove user profiles remotely with the following constraints/rules: ########## List of accounts/Student profiles older than 21 days and not test accounts to be deleted ####################### foreach ($computer in…
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Link Up/Down using VB script in windows 2019

I have tried to use the Enable() method from Win32_NetworkAdapter and Win32_PnPEntity class. But it only enable or disable the interface. Set devices = WMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_PnPEntity WHERE DeviceID like '" &…
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WMI event subscription using [wmiclass] not working in Powershell Core

I've been trying to get code below running in Powershell Core for many hours, but it doesn't work. I need something like that if one program starts ( say regedit) it triggers another program to start, say notepad. (Note: I need to do this with code…
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Why doesn't ThermalZoneInformation return the real temperatures?

Reproduce (or not): using System; using System.Management; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace WMISample { public class MyWMIQuery { public static void Main() { try { …
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C# - Write ManagementEventWatcher query with condition?

What I have now is WMI watcher: ManagementEventWatcher processStartEvent = new ManagementEventWatcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_ProcessStartTrace"); I need to filter the query by multiple process names Whats the correct syntax?
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WMI: Getting weird value from Win32_OperatingSystem table

I faced an issue using WMI with C++. It is the first time I've used it so I took the basic documentation example. But running it doesn't work for me. I tried to extract the OS Name from Win32_OperatingSystem but, when I display it, I got 0x9a2fec. I…
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Remote WMI query failing with 'A security package specific error occurred' when using Azure Active Directory user

I'm attempting to query a remote machine with the PowerShell cmdlet: Get-WmiObject and using credentials for a user in Azure AD that has the Azure AD joined device local administrator role and the IAM role assignment of Virtual Machine Administrator…
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WMI Remote Process Cannot Query Parent (Access Denied)

I have a .NET process that delegates work to other servers by creating a remote worker process on those servers and then sending the work over a TCP port. That all works fine, but I would like the remote worker processes to 'monitor' the parent…
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"Access Denied" error in WMI Get API in a web application

I have a web application and I need to access some configuration information in a Windows service running on the same server. What I have works locally but not when deployed to server. I understand the application runs using aspnet.exe worker…
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.vbs to tell time with Sapi but not interrupt given some open processes

I have composed a .vbs file with near zero knowledge of this coding language (with major code from here and here). I put this together to get my computer to tell me the time every 15 minutes (combined with task scheduler). The trickiest part was to…
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