Microsoft perl sample code
The foundations for Manageability in Windows is 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. The Microsoft WMI class can be used in ActiveXperts Network Monitor to monitor your servers.
Sample Code
use Win32::OLE('in'); my $computer = "."; my $objWMIService = Win32::OLE->GetObject("winmgmts:\\\\$computer\\root\\MicrosoftActiveDirectory") or die "WMI connection failed.\n"; my $colItems = $objWMIService->ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Microsoft_LocalDomainInfo", "WQL"); foreach my $objItem (in $colItems) { print "DCname: $objItem->{DCname}\n"; print "DNSname: $objItem->{DNSname}\n"; print "FlatName: $objItem->{FlatName}\n"; print "SID: $objItem->{SID}\n"; print "TreeName: $objItem->{TreeName}\n"; print "\n"; print "########\n"; print "\n"; }