Win32_ShadowCopy 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_ShadowCopy WMI class can be used in ActiveXperts Network Monitor to monitor your servers.
Sample Code
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_ShadowCopy", "WQL", wbemFlagReturnImmediately | wbemFlagForwardOnly); foreach my $objItem (in $colItems) { print "Caption: $objItem->{Caption}\n"; print "ClientAccessible: $objItem->{ClientAccessible}\n"; print "Count: $objItem->{Count}\n"; print "Description: $objItem->{Description}\n"; print "DeviceObject: $objItem->{DeviceObject}\n"; print "Differential: $objItem->{Differential}\n"; print "ExposedLocally: $objItem->{ExposedLocally}\n"; print "ExposedName: $objItem->{ExposedName}\n"; print "ExposedPath: $objItem->{ExposedPath}\n"; print "ExposedRemotely: $objItem->{ExposedRemotely}\n"; print "HardwareAssisted: $objItem->{HardwareAssisted}\n"; print "ID: $objItem->{ID}\n"; print "Imported: $objItem->{Imported}\n"; print "InstallDate: $objItem->{InstallDate}\n"; print "Name: $objItem->{Name}\n"; print "NoAutoRelease: $objItem->{NoAutoRelease}\n"; print "NotSurfaced: $objItem->{NotSurfaced}\n"; print "NoWriters: $objItem->{NoWriters}\n"; print "OriginatingMachine: $objItem->{OriginatingMachine}\n"; print "Persistent: $objItem->{Persistent}\n"; print "Plex: $objItem->{Plex}\n"; print "ProviderID: $objItem->{ProviderID}\n"; print "ServiceMachine: $objItem->{ServiceMachine}\n"; print "SetID: $objItem->{SetID}\n"; print "State: $objItem->{State}\n"; print "Status: $objItem->{Status}\n"; print "Transportable: $objItem->{Transportable}\n"; print "VolumeName: $objItem->{VolumeName}\n"; print "\n"; } }sub WMIDateStringToDate(strDate) { return "blah"; }