Understanding Wmi Scripting: Exploiting Microsoft's Windows Management Instrumentation in Mission-Critical Computing Infrastructures

By Alain Lissoir

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555582664
• ISBN13: 9781555582661
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Digital Press
• Length: 580 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Best Comprehensive introduction and tutorial on WMI around

WMI technology is central to MS MOM and other products. Having Alain's expertise at my fingertips is a great advantage in understanding the scope and depth of the management ability exposed through WMI. I also like the scripting information and download examples as I don't want to reinvent the wheel and welcome the pointers.

A must have for the WMI professional

Ever wonder why you never see "Medicine for Dummies" or "Learn Internal Medicine in 24 Hours" in your doctor's bookcase? You are more likely to find a book called "Principals of Internal Medicine" in your doctor's book case. Alain Lissoir's "Understanding WMI Scripting" and his second book "Leveraging WMI Scripting" are the "Principals of WMI". They are the WMI books that are in my office bookcase. When I need to get a list of all of the CIM classes available for MOM or Exchange I go to these books first. His books contain detailed information about the WMI architecture, WQL, tools like CIM studio, Event scripting, Win32 Providers, Active Directory providers, Performance providers, Exchange providers, WMI and the.NET Framework, and a lot more than I can list. All of the source code used in the book can be downloaded from the author's website. Just the code alone in this book has saved me countless hours of work. I was once stuck at a customer's site and couldn't figure out why I didn't see the "High Performance Cooked Counter" classes (i.e., Win32_PerfFormattedData) on this one Exchange server. I called someone at my office and had them lookup "High-Performance providers" and on page 493 of "Leveraging WMI Scripting" it said to do a "Winmgmt /resyncperf" command. Prior to that call I had spent over an hour google'ing for that solution. These books have not failed me yet. Everything you need to know about WMI can be found through the Table of Contents or Index of these books. If you are the kind of person that tries to work through a problem until you get stuck and then go to the book then these are your books. If you are looking for a book to read while lounging beside a pool this probably is not the book for you. However, if you consider yourself a WMI professional and need your own set of "Principals of WMI" then "Understanding WMI Scripting" and the second book "Leveraging WMI Scripting" are must haves.