Win32-PerfRawData-Spooler-PrintQueue - WMI Perl sample
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Win32-PerfRawData-Spooler-PrintQueue
Description
The Win32_PerfRawData_Spooler_PrintQueue raw data performance counter class represents raw data performance statistics about a Print Queue. This class is shown as the Print Queue object in Sysmon. The WMI source of its data is the high-performance Performance Counter Provider. The original data source is the Spooler performance library. The corresponding formatted data class is Win32_PerfFormattedData_Spooler_PrintQueue. This class was added for Windows 2000.
Example(s)
use strict; use Win32::OLE('in'); use constant wbemFlagReturnImmediately => 0x10; use constant wbemFlagForwardOnly => 0x20; my @computers = ("\localhost"); 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_PerfRawData_Spooler_PrintQueue", "WQL", wbemFlagReturnImmediately | wbemFlagForwardOnly); foreach my $objItem (in $colItems) { print "AddNetworkPrinterCalls: $objItem->{AddNetworkPrinterCalls}\n"; print "BytesPrintedPersec: $objItem->{BytesPrintedPersec}\n"; print "Caption: $objItem->{Caption}\n"; print "Description: $objItem->{Description}\n"; print "EnumerateNetworkPrinterCalls: $objItem->{EnumerateNetworkPrinterCalls}\n"; print "Frequency_Object: $objItem->{Frequency_Object}\n"; print "Frequency_PerfTime: $objItem->{Frequency_PerfTime}\n"; print "Frequency_Sys100NS: $objItem->{Frequency_Sys100NS}\n"; print "JobErrors: $objItem->{JobErrors}\n"; print "Jobs: $objItem->{Jobs}\n"; print "JobsSpooling: $objItem->{JobsSpooling}\n"; print "MaxJobsSpooling: $objItem->{MaxJobsSpooling}\n"; print "MaxReferences: $objItem->{MaxReferences}\n"; print "Name: $objItem->{Name}\n"; print "NotReadyErrors: $objItem->{NotReadyErrors}\n"; print "OutofPaperErrors: $objItem->{OutofPaperErrors}\n"; print "References: $objItem->{References}\n"; print "Timestamp_Object: $objItem->{Timestamp_Object}\n"; print "Timestamp_PerfTime: $objItem->{Timestamp_PerfTime}\n"; print "Timestamp_Sys100NS: $objItem->{Timestamp_Sys100NS}\n"; print "TotalJobsPrinted: $objItem->{TotalJobsPrinted}\n"; print "TotalPagesPrinted: $objItem->{TotalPagesPrinted}\n"; print "\n"; } }