Using APM to gather WMI text based fields

waxxworx

Hi,

We're running APM 3.5 and I've started getting into WMI.

I would like to gather manufacturer and model from Win32_ComputerSystem but whether I do it together or individually the value in ComponentStatisticData in APM_CurrentStatistics is 0. Can the WMI monitor only pull back numeric data?

I've tried both of these queries:

select manufacturer, model from Win32_ComputerSystem

select model from Win32_ComputerSystem

RogerWong

Correct. The Orion APM statistic value is a numeric value. % disk space remaining, # of messages in the Exchange mail queue, that sort of thing.

If it's system inventory that you're after, Orion APM isn't the tool for that job.

You said you're just starting to discover what you can accomplish through WMI. You may find it educational to run vbscripts from your system command line that do various things with WMI, including the kind of system inventory stuff you're after.

For example, here's a  Visual Basic script that uses WMI to return the System Information of a Windows computer. I looked it up in Google using the search terms wmi vbscript system information.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vbscript/VvvHardwareInfo.aspx