Win32-TapeDrive - WMI Perl sample
The foundations for Manageability in Windows 2019/2016/2012/2008 and Windows 10/7/XP 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.
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The Win32_TapeDrive WMI class can be used in ActiveXperts Network Monitor to monitor your servers.
Win32-TapeDrive
Description
The Win32_TapeDrive WMI class represents a tape drive on a Windows computer. Tape drives are primarily distinguished by the fact that they can be accessed only sequentially.
Example(s)
use strict; use Win32::OLE('in'); use constant wbemFlagReturnImmediately => 0x10; use constant wbemFlagForwardOnly => 0x20; my @computers = ("DELL17"); foreach my $computer (@computers) { print "\n"; print "==========================================\n"; print "Computer: $computer\n"; print "==========================================\n"; my $objWMIService = Win32::OLE->GetObject("winmgmts:\\\\$computer\\root\\CIMV2") or die "WMI connection failed.\n"; my $colItems = $objWMIService->ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_TapeDrive", "WQL", wbemFlagReturnImmediately | wbemFlagForwardOnly); foreach my $objItem (in $colItems) { print "Availability: $objItem->{Availability}\n"; print "Capabilities: " . join(",", (in $objItem->{Capabilities})) . "\n"; print "CapabilityDescriptions: " . join(",", (in $objItem->{CapabilityDescriptions})) . "\n"; print "Caption: $objItem->{Caption}\n"; print "Compression: $objItem->{Compression}\n"; print "CompressionMethod: $objItem->{CompressionMethod}\n"; print "ConfigManagerErrorCode: $objItem->{ConfigManagerErrorCode}\n"; print "ConfigManagerUserConfig: $objItem->{ConfigManagerUserConfig}\n"; print "CreationClassName: $objItem->{CreationClassName}\n"; print "DefaultBlockSize: $objItem->{DefaultBlockSize}\n"; print "Description: $objItem->{Description}\n"; print "DeviceID: $objItem->{DeviceID}\n"; print "ECC: $objItem->{ECC}\n"; print "EOTWarningZoneSize: $objItem->{EOTWarningZoneSize}\n"; print "ErrorCleared: $objItem->{ErrorCleared}\n"; print "ErrorDescription: $objItem->{ErrorDescription}\n"; print "ErrorMethodology: $objItem->{ErrorMethodology}\n"; print "FeaturesHigh: $objItem->{FeaturesHigh}\n"; print "FeaturesLow: $objItem->{FeaturesLow}\n"; print "Id: $objItem->{Id}\n"; print "InstallDate: $objItem->{InstallDate}\n"; print "LastErrorCode: $objItem->{LastErrorCode}\n"; print "Manufacturer: $objItem->{Manufacturer}\n"; print "MaxBlockSize: $objItem->{MaxBlockSize}\n"; print "MaxMediaSize: $objItem->{MaxMediaSize}\n"; print "MaxPartitionCount: $objItem->{MaxPartitionCount}\n"; print "MediaType: $objItem->{MediaType}\n"; print "MinBlockSize: $objItem->{MinBlockSize}\n"; print "Name: $objItem->{Name}\n"; print "NeedsCleaning: $objItem->{NeedsCleaning}\n"; print "NumberOfMediaSupported: $objItem->{NumberOfMediaSupported}\n"; print "Padding: $objItem->{Padding}\n"; print "PNPDeviceID: $objItem->{PNPDeviceID}\n"; print "PowerManagementCapabilities: " . join(",", (in $objItem->{PowerManagementCapabilities})) . "\n"; print "PowerManagementSupported: $objItem->{PowerManagementSupported}\n"; print "ReportSetMarks: $objItem->{ReportSetMarks}\n"; print "Status: $objItem->{Status}\n"; print "StatusInfo: $objItem->{StatusInfo}\n"; print "SystemCreationClassName: $objItem->{SystemCreationClassName}\n"; print "SystemName: $objItem->{SystemName}\n"; print "\n"; } }sub WMIDateStringToDate(strDate) { return "blah"; }