Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is the Microsoft implementation of WBEM, an industry
initiative to establish standards for accessing and sharing management information over an
enterprise network.
Nodes (alphabetically):
Note: Authentication
In "Automatic mode", to perform the WMI Scan, CHScanner will use the credentials of the
account it was launched under.
In "Normal mode", to perform the WMI Scan, you will be prompted for a user name and a password that should have
the permissions to query the WMI informations for the scanned computers.
The user name must be specified as: username@domain
Due to the Windows implementation of WMI API, the query time-out could only be set to two minutes or
"wait forever". Obviously, the second option is not acceptable if we need speed !
To speed things up you could use as discovery the TCP SYN method with 135 as parameter for port. Of course, the
Scan All and Show MAC Discovered must be unchecked.
If not scanning the localhost you should provide the credentials of an account with, at least, read rights to the WMI tree. Otherways these informations are not gathered.
For Windows XP and higher versions you can use the user principal name format, "Username@DomainName", to specify the user and domain name. For older versions use the "Domain\\UserName" format.
Win32_CDROMDrive
Informations gathered (8):
Win32_DesktopMonitor
Informations gathered (6):
Win32_DiskDrive
Informations gathered (7):
Win32_DiskPartition
Informations gathered (9):
Win32_Group
Informations gathered (7):
Win32_LoggedUser
Informations gathered (1):
Win32_OperatingSystem
Informations gathered (18):
Win32_PhysicalMemory
Informations gathered (11):
Win32_Processor
Informations gathered (12):
Win32_QuickFixEngineering
Informations gathered (6):
Win32_Share
Informations gathered (5):
Win32_UserAccount
Informations gathered (14):
Win32_VideoController
Informations gathered (11):
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