ActiveXperts Network Monitor ships with a large collection of WMI based PowerShell scripts and VBScript scripts to monitor and manage a network.
Use ActiveXperts Netork Monitor to monitor your virtualization servers, domains, computers and devices. It runs on a single Windows server, without agents required on the monitored systems. It has many built-in checks and also allows administrators to create custom checks using PowerShell, VBScript, WMI and SSH.
The foundations for Manageability in Windows 7/2008/Vista/XP/2000 and Millennium Edition/'98 are Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI; formerly WBEM) and WMI extensions for Windows Driver Model (WDM).
ActiveXperts Network Monitor provides the ability to build monitor check routines based on WMI. ActiveXperts has collected more than a hundred WMI samples. You can use these samples as a base for new check routines you can write yourself.
On this site, you can find many WMI samples.
The Win32_SoftwareElement WMI class can be used in ActiveXperts Network Monitor to monitor your servers.
On Error Resume Next
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_SoftwareElement",,48)
For Each objItem in colItems
Wscript.Echo "Attributes: " & objItem.Attributes
Wscript.Echo "BuildNumber: " & objItem.BuildNumber
Wscript.Echo "Caption: " & objItem.Caption
Wscript.Echo "CodeSet: " & objItem.CodeSet
Wscript.Echo "Description: " & objItem.Description
Wscript.Echo "IdentificationCode: " & objItem.IdentificationCode
Wscript.Echo "InstallDate: " & objItem.InstallDate
Wscript.Echo "InstallState: " & objItem.InstallState
Wscript.Echo "LanguageEdition: " & objItem.LanguageEdition
Wscript.Echo "Manufacturer: " & objItem.Manufacturer
Wscript.Echo "Name: " & objItem.Name
Wscript.Echo "OtherTargetOS: " & objItem.OtherTargetOS
Wscript.Echo "Path: " & objItem.Path
Wscript.Echo "SerialNumber: " & objItem.SerialNumber
Wscript.Echo "SoftwareElementID: " & objItem.SoftwareElementID
Wscript.Echo "SoftwareElementState: " & objItem.SoftwareElementState
Wscript.Echo "Status: " & objItem.Status
Wscript.Echo "TargetOperatingSystem: " & objItem.TargetOperatingSystem
Wscript.Echo "Version: " & objItem.Version
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