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#161756 - 2006-05-08 05:33 PM Specific WMI Targets
Arend_ Arend_ MM club member Registered: 2005-01-17 Posts: 1895 Loc: Hilversum, The Netherlands	Does anyone know a way to get a specific item of a specific topic of the WMI Classes ? For instance getting the UserName information from Win32_ComputerSystem. The only way I know how to get that info is Code: $strComputer = "." $objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" + $strComputer + "\root\cimv2") $colItems = $objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem",,48) For each $objItem in $colItems ? "UserName: " + $objItem.UserName Next Isn't it possible to do something like Code: $strComputer = "." $objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" + $strComputer + "\root\cimv2") $Uname = $objWMIService.Get("Win32_ComputerSystem.UserName",0,"") ? $Uname Any help would be apreciated.
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#161757 - 2006-05-08 06:26 PM Re: Specific WMI Targets
Shawn Shawn Administrator Registered: 1999-08-13 Posts: 8611	Funny you asked that. Was searching the net on this and here is another guy asking the same question ... http://www.developersdex.com/asp/message.asp?p=1825&r=4313892 You would think that the collection returned from the wmi query would conform to the standards (reading MSDN it should) - the collection should have an Item property and a Count property - and indeed they do. But for some reason, they dont work (at least not in Kixtart) ... Ideally you should be able to do this: ?"Username=" + $colItems.Item(0).UserName But that no work - you should be able to do this: ?"Count = " $colItems.Count that no work. The properties do indeed exist (because if you access some made-up proerty name, you get an unknown name error). The errors being returned from Item and Count are just generic "Unspecified errors". I tried accessing the Count property from within for FOR/EACH loop (thinking that maybe the enumeration has to start, before these properties are valid) ... that no work either. So idk - reading that article, even if .Item worked - the Item property takes an argument that identifies which element your looking to pull (by name) - kind of a catch 22 thing. Bottom line (afaik) ... 1) The FOR/EACH is the best (only) way 2) The WMI designers are idiots (sorry for saying that, but they are). -Shawn
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#161758 - 2006-05-08 07:08 PM Re: Specific WMI Targets
Shawn Shawn Administrator Registered: 1999-08-13 Posts: 8611	Ok, been playing and got this to work: Have to change your wmi query to this (take off the parms): $colItems = $objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem") Then do this: $hostname = "SHAWN" ?"UserName=" $colItems.Item("Win32_ComputerSystem='$HOSTNAME'").UserName
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#161759 - 2006-05-08 07:11 PM Re: Specific WMI Targets
NTDOC NTDOC Administrator Registered: 2000-07-28 Posts: 11624 Loc: CA	Thanks Shawn Now you can whip up a mini-udf and make it NoVarInStrings compliant.
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#161760 - 2006-05-08 07:21 PM Re: Specific WMI Targets
Shawn Shawn Administrator Registered: 1999-08-13 Posts: 8611	roflmao - bastard ! seriously, glad we did this exersise because I always wondered if there was a one-shot way of querying these single-item wmi collections. Just wondering why this doesn't work now: ?"UserName=" + $objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem").Item("Win32_ComputerSystem='$HOSTNAME'").UserName -Shawn
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#161761 - 2006-05-08 07:26 PM Re: Specific WMI Targets
Shawn Shawn Administrator Registered: 1999-08-13 Posts: 8611	Oy yeah, and I take back those disparaging remarks I made about the WMI developers.
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#161762 - 2006-05-08 07:58 PM Re: Specific WMI Targets
Arend_ Arend_ MM club member Registered: 2005-01-17 Posts: 1895 Loc: Hilversum, The Netherlands	Thats funny how that works, basically you'd have to specify your computername in order to get the username. What about if you want to retrieve the computername ? Thanks for looking into it btw Shawn Also, a bit Off topic but how to list all properties in a COM object for instance WScript.Network ?
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#161763 - 2006-05-08 08:00 PM Re: Specific WMI Targets
Shawn Shawn Administrator Registered: 1999-08-13 Posts: 8611	No probs, like I said - good question, always wondered that too. List them as in "look at them with your eyeballs" or list them as in "a script that will list them out" ?
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#161764 - 2006-05-08 08:01 PM Re: Specific WMI Targets
Arend_ Arend_ MM club member Registered: 2005-01-17 Posts: 1895 Loc: Hilversum, The Netherlands	hehe Also, I found a couple of items on g00gle which use objWMIService.Get() but I can't seem to find any material that explains the .get part. List em as in Script, like kixomatic does with WMI Classes
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#161765 - 2006-05-08 08:27 PM Re: Specific WMI Targets
Shawn Shawn Administrator Registered: 1999-08-13 Posts: 8611	um, I am not aware of a COM object for dumping other COM object's properties/methods. I know that programatically it can be done (there are COM interfaces for dumping COM interfaces) - and I have seen classes and code for them. An internet search for a third-party library might yield something. -Shawn
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#161766 - 2006-05-09 05:34 PM Re: Specific WMI Targets
Arend_ Arend_ MM club member Registered: 2005-01-17 Posts: 1895 Loc: Hilversum, The Netherlands	Apparantly thats a hard task to complete, I've tried different viewers to scan for COM objects but till now no succcess. It should be scriptable just like WMI is. like a ComOMatic or something. I guess it's the same old story... "everything that 'should' be per microsoft definition 'isn't'"
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#161767 - 2006-05-09 11:32 PM

Re: Specific WMI Targets

krabourn Offline

Hey THIS is FUN

Registered: 2000-12-11
Posts: 244
Loc: San Antonio, Texas, USA

I know this is a little late, but here are a few ways of getting the username.
Code:

BREAK ON
$Nul = SetOption("WrapAtEOL", "On")

$strComputer = @Wksta

$objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" + $strComputer + "\root\cimv2")

$colItems = $objWMIService.Get(Win32_ComputerSystem)

? "UserName= " $objWMIService.InstancesOf(Win32_ComputerSystem).Item("Win32_ComputerSystem='" + $strComputer + "'").UserName

$colItems = $objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem where name='" + @Wksta + "'")

? "Count=" $colItems.Count

? "UserName= " $colItems.Item("Win32_ComputerSystem='" + @Wksta + "'").UserName

? "UserName= " GetObject("winmgmts:\\" + $strComputer + "\root\cimv2").ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem where name='" 
				+ $strComputer + "'").Item("Win32_ComputerSystem='" + $strComputer + "'").UserName

? "UserName= " GetObject("winmgmts:\\" + $strComputer + "\root\cimv2").InstancesOf(Win32_ComputerSystem).Item("Win32_ComputerSystem='" 
				+ $strComputer + "'").UserName

_________________________
Kelly

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#161768 - 2006-05-10 08:38 AM Re: Specific WMI Targets
Arend_ Arend_ MM club member Registered: 2005-01-17 Posts: 1895 Loc: Hilversum, The Netherlands	Thx alot for that krabourn The trouble is you still have to specify the computername. So the problem remains when you are looking for the computername itself Thx for your input though
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#161769 - 2006-05-10 03:03 PM Re: Specific WMI Targets
krabourn krabourn Hey THIS is FUN Registered: 2000-12-11 Posts: 244 Loc: San Antonio, Texas, USA	The problem is that Name is what the class, Win32_ComputerSystem, is indexed by. Index may not be the best way to describe it, but you have to know one of the values of a keyed attribute to get a attribute of a particular instance. You can use the WMI CIM Studio to see which attributes have the key next to it. Here is an example getting the Computer's name from another class. Code: ? "BusSystemName= " GetObject("winmgmts:\\" + $strComputer + "\root\cimv2").InstancesOf(Win32_Bus).Item("Win32_Bus='PCI_BUS_0'").SystemName _________________________ Kelly
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#161770 - 2006-05-11 03:38 PM Re: Specific WMI Targets
Arend_ Arend_ MM club member Registered: 2005-01-17 Posts: 1895 Loc: Hilversum, The Netherlands	Ah ok, Still weird to get to it in one line though but this is basically what I'm looking for thx alot
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#212119 - 2016-11-16 11:10 AM Re: Specific WMI Targets [Re: Arend_]
Arend_ Arend_ MM club member Registered: 2005-01-17 Posts: 1895 Loc: Hilversum, The Netherlands	Takes 10 years to finally find the proper answer $\:\)$ Basically the array WMI returns has the following property "ItemIndex" (Also "Count" as pointed out earlier in this thread). So in effect it would be $colItems.ItemIndex(0).Property Example: Code: $strComputer = "." ? "ComputerName= "+GetObject("winmgmts:\\"+$strComputer+"\root\cimv2").ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem").ItemIndex(0).Name
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#212127 - 2016-11-21 06:25 PM Re: Specific WMI Targets [Re: Arend_]
NTDOC NTDOC Administrator Registered: 2000-07-28 Posts: 11624 Loc: CA	LOL, Well thanks for sharing Arend :-)
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