finding remote os verion and info
- Thread starter JB2
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You can have a look in the help at: TCC / Variables & Functions / Variables / Variables by category, in categories 'Hardware status' and 'Operating system and software status'.
WMI would be perfect for this, but looking at the help files neither the @WMI function nor WMIQUERY command seem to support remote systems.
You could use the wmic.exe external program though. With the /node switch it will query a remote system. Here are some samples:
That last one actually shows the size of each memory module in your system. You'd have to total them manually. I'm not sure if there is a WMI query that returns one value representing total RAM. Seems like there would be, but the few minutes I looked I didn't find it.
You could use the wmic.exe external program though. With the /node switch it will query a remote system. Here are some samples:
Code:
wmic /node:COMPUTER csproduct get name
wmic /node:COMPUTER bios get version
wmic /node:COMPUTER os get caption
wmic /node:COMPUTER cpu get name
wmic /node:COMPUTER memorychip get capacityThat last one actually shows the size of each memory module in your system. You'd have to total them manually. I'm not sure if there is a WMI query that returns one value representing total RAM. Seems like there would be, but the few minutes I looked I didn't find it.
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In v17, @WMI and WMIQUERY both support remote machines (though the help doesn't make that very clear).
Code:
v:\> echo %@wmi["\\lucky\root\CIMV2","SELECT Name FROM Win32_ComputerSystem"]
LUCKY
v:\> wmiquery \\lucky\root\CIMV2 "SELECT Name FROM Win32_ComputerSystem"
LUCKYGood to know...thanks!