Win32_PointingDevice perl sample code

The foundations for Manageability in Windows is 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. The Win32_PointingDevice WMI class can be used in ActiveXperts Network Monitor to monitor your servers.

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Description

The Win32_PointingDevice WMI class represents an input device used to point to and select regions on the display of a Windows computer system. Any device used to manipulate a pointer, or point to the display on a Windows computer system is a member of this class.

Sample Code

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

   foreach my $objItem (in $colItems) {
      print "Availability: $objItem->{Availability}\n";
      print "Caption: $objItem->{Caption}\n";
      print "ConfigManagerErrorCode: $objItem->{ConfigManagerErrorCode}\n";
      print "ConfigManagerUserConfig: $objItem->{ConfigManagerUserConfig}\n";
      print "CreationClassName: $objItem->{CreationClassName}\n";
      print "Description: $objItem->{Description}\n";
      print "DeviceID: $objItem->{DeviceID}\n";
      print "DeviceInterface: $objItem->{DeviceInterface}\n";
      print "DoubleSpeedThreshold: $objItem->{DoubleSpeedThreshold}\n";
      print "ErrorCleared: $objItem->{ErrorCleared}\n";
      print "ErrorDescription: $objItem->{ErrorDescription}\n";
      print "Handedness: $objItem->{Handedness}\n";
      print "HardwareType: $objItem->{HardwareType}\n";
      print "InfFileName: $objItem->{InfFileName}\n";
      print "InfSection: $objItem->{InfSection}\n";
      print "InstallDate: $objItem->{InstallDate}\n";
      print "IsLocked: $objItem->{IsLocked}\n";
      print "LastErrorCode: $objItem->{LastErrorCode}\n";
      print "Manufacturer: $objItem->{Manufacturer}\n";
      print "Name: $objItem->{Name}\n";
      print "NumberOfButtons: $objItem->{NumberOfButtons}\n";
      print "PNPDeviceID: $objItem->{PNPDeviceID}\n";
      print "PointingType: $objItem->{PointingType}\n";
      print "PowerManagementCapabilities: " . join(",", (in $objItem->{PowerManagementCapabilities})) . "\n";
      print "PowerManagementSupported: $objItem->{PowerManagementSupported}\n";
      print "QuadSpeedThreshold: $objItem->{QuadSpeedThreshold}\n";
      print "Resolution: $objItem->{Resolution}\n";
      print "SampleRate: $objItem->{SampleRate}\n";
      print "Status: $objItem->{Status}\n";
      print "StatusInfo: $objItem->{StatusInfo}\n";
      print "Synch: $objItem->{Synch}\n";
      print "SystemCreationClassName: $objItem->{SystemCreationClassName}\n";
      print "SystemName: $objItem->{SystemName}\n";
      print "\n";
   }
}sub WMIDateStringToDate(strDate)
{
   return "blah";
}