DSM Support for WMI

Using WMI, Ivanti DSM can read all values (hardware or software) available on a system and make them available – thus, Ivanti DSM is also a mana­gement application. Ivanti DSM saves the values in variables.

eScript provides the following WMI commands:

  • WMISimpleQuery and WMIGetIndexData provide the properties from system and software components.
  • WMIGetInstanceCount provides the number of available system and soft­ware components of a certain class.

Examples of uses:

  • Export all properties from the installed network cards on a computer. Without WMI, properties such as the DNS search order can only be found with a tedious process in the registry.
  • Conditions in the eScript can be attached to a property to control the script execution.
  • Check to see if a certain process is running on the system. If so, terminate the process. That allows uninstallation without restarting the computer.
  • Determine the free disk space of all physical and logical drives on a computer.

Requirements for WMI Support

To use Ivanti DSM with WMI, you must have access to all WMI information:

  • All name spaces
  • All classes of a name space
  • All instances of a class (depending upon the server)
  • All computers

    • It must also be guaranteed that during access there are sufficient rights to execute the operations on the system that require administrator privileges.