Question: is there any interest in a WMI client for Linux?

[Terry L. Inzauro]

Ron Gage wrote:
> Hi everyone:
> 
> I am thinking about writing a WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) client
> for Linux.  This would basically be a command line way to perform various
> performance queries to a Windows box - with absolutely no agent software
> anywhere.   All that would be required on the Windows side of things is a
> service account.
> 
> This would not be for allowing Windows computers to query Linux - at least not
> immediately.  Allowing a Windows computer to query a Linux computer is
> downstream from this.
> 
> What can WMI provide?  For example, hardware inventory, performance counters,
> various disk stats (per logical disk), and so on.
> 
> Would there be any interest in such a program?
> 

sure. being able to gather info from w1nd0z3 boxen without any other client software would be nice ;)


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