Win32-CDROMDrive - WMI Powershell 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_CDROMDrive WMI class can be used in ActiveXperts Network Monitor to monitor your servers.

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Win32-CDROMDrive

Description

The Win32_CDROMDrive WMI class represents a CD-ROM drive on a Windows computer system. Note that the name of the drive does not correspond to the logical drive letter assigned to device.

Example(s)

  $computer = "LocalHost" 
$namespace = "root\CIMV2" 
Get-WmiObject -class Win32_CDROMDrive -computername $computer -namespace $namespace