Session Summary
The Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation
Command-line (WMIC) is a command-line interface to Windows Management
Instrumentation (WMI). WMIC provides a simple interface to WMI so that you can
take advantage of WMI to manage computers that are running Microsoft Windows.
WMIC interoperates with existing shells and utility commands, and can be easily
extended by scripts or other administration-oriented programs.
WMIC
allows you to define new aliases (friendly names), add output formats, and
create and run scripts. With WMIC you can browse the WMI and other like-schema,
and query its classes and instances. You can also get information from a local
computer, a remote computer, and from multiple computers in a single command.
Being a systems administrator tool, WMIC is more intuitive than WMI,
in large part because of aliases. Aliases take simple commands that you enter
at the command line, and then act on the WMI namespace in a predefined way,
such as constructing a complex WMI Query Language (WQL) command from a simple
WMIC alias command. The output is returned as XML documents, which can then be
processed by XSL to render reports in multiple formats (including forms,
tables, html, process-friendly formats, and CSV).
The presentation
will first briefly review the WMIC functionality and architecture, it will then
focus on demonstrating the WMIC modes of operation, use of progressive help
discovery and report generation. Finally, the customization of the WMIC
aliases, transformation and output formats will be explained.
This is
a
Level
200 session that was recorded July 24, 2002 and presented by Arkady
Retik. Arkady Retik is a Program Manager in the Windows Management
Instrumentation Group, which is a part of Windows Server Division.
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