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

[Ryan Wilcox]

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
>> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Ron Gage
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 12:56 PM
>> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: [Nagios-users] Question: is there any interest in a WMI
client
>> for Linux?
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
>> --
>> Ron Gage
>> (LPIC1 MCP A+ Net+)

ron... it is understood that WMI would give users the ability to go way
above and beyond the 'check_nt' command... what other capability are you
interested in building in that 'check_nt' doesn't provide?


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