Win32-NetworkConnection - 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_NetworkConnection WMI class can be used in ActiveXperts Network Monitor to monitor your servers.

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Win32-NetworkConnection

Description

The Win32_NetworkClient WMI class represents a network client on a Windows system. Any computer system on the network with a client relationship to the system is a descendent (or member) of this class (for example, a computer running Windows 2000 Workstation or Windows 98 that is part of a Windows 2000 domain).

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_NetworkConnection", "WQL",
                  wbemFlagReturnImmediately | wbemFlagForwardOnly);

   foreach my $objItem (in $colItems) {
      print "AccessMask: $objItem->{AccessMask}\n";
      print "Caption: $objItem->{Caption}\n";
      print "Comment: $objItem->{Comment}\n";
      print "ConnectionState: $objItem->{ConnectionState}\n";
      print "ConnectionType: $objItem->{ConnectionType}\n";
      print "Description: $objItem->{Description}\n";
      print "DisplayType: $objItem->{DisplayType}\n";
      print "InstallDate: $objItem->{InstallDate}\n";
      print "LocalName: $objItem->{LocalName}\n";
      print "Name: $objItem->{Name}\n";
      print "Persistent: $objItem->{Persistent}\n";
      print "ProviderName: $objItem->{ProviderName}\n";
      print "RemoteName: $objItem->{RemoteName}\n";
      print "RemotePath: $objItem->{RemotePath}\n";
      print "ResourceType: $objItem->{ResourceType}\n";
      print "Status: $objItem->{Status}\n";
      print "UserName: $objItem->{UserName}\n";
      print "\n";
   }
}sub WMIDateStringToDate(strDate)
{
   return "blah";
}