Agentless Windows monitors

[Glenn Meisenheimer]

Hi Anthony				



> Andreas message hits some key dangers to accessing WMI.



> With access to WMI one can literally do anything, to a system,

> inclusive of rebooting the system.



I understand your concerns.  However these scripts do not require
 the installation of WMI on Windows boxes.  WMI is already there.
  The scripts just query it.  They do not write to anything.



Of course if somebody was interested in writing to WMI and hosing
 a system, they wouldn't need these scripts to do that.  They could
 write their own.



I cannot answer to Microsoft's wisdom in regards to WMI.  All I
 know is that it is there - it is what feeds perfmon, which is where
 nsclient gets its data.  As far as I know it cannot be removed,
 so why not use it?



As for the Author, Andreas?  He is my adoptive son.  I have known
 him since he was 11 years old, and paid his way through the University
 myself.... hehe  So he is well known - to me at least.



I sent him some vbs snippets from the Microsoft WMI scripting tutorial
 and asked him if he could develop these monitors based on that
 approach.  He did, and I find them useful.



Hopefully others will too.



- Glenn Meisenheimer (gmcookie)



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