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.

On this site, you can find many WMI samples.

The Win32_TapeDrive WMI class can be used in ActiveXperts Network Monitor to monitor your servers.

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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";
}