README.md

Python WMI Client

Communicate with Windows machines via WMI from *nix machines.

Motivation

The original wmic was/is a command-line utility originally built as part of Samba. It has become difficult to find the correct requirements for building it manually, and there were to my knowledge no available packages for the differing platforms that I use.

While the current implementation aims to be compatible with check_wmi_plus.pl, getting feature parity with the original/compiled version of wmic is not out of the question.

Installation

To install simply run the following:

$ pip install wmic

Requirements

• impacket >= 0.9.13
• natsort >= 3

Usage

The simplest way to run it is similar to the following

wmic -A /etc/nagios3/wmic_auth.ini //ServerName "SELECT * FROM Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_Memory"

Available arguments

• -A, --authentication-file : INI style file that
  • domain : optional, default: WORKGROUP
  • username : required
  • password : required
• -U,--user : format [DOMAIN\]USERNAME[%PASSWORD]
• --delimiter : how to separate the colums, default: |
• --namespace : namespace, default: //./root/cimv2

Notes

• If you do not supply a domain, then the script defaults to WORKGROUP
• You must use either a file or user argument

License

MIT