Chapter 6. Logs and Reports
If you have read this far, you have met almost all the concepts needed to harness the power of WMI for system administration tasks. The only major component not yet encountered is the capability to respond to system events when they occur, which is discussed in Chapter 8, “Proactive Troubleshooting with WMI Events” Hopefully you now have a good understanding of how the world looks from a WMI perspective, and an idea of the many ways in which VBScript can be used to view and interact with that world. It should by now be apparent that for a system administrator, one of the most powerful features of WMI is its capability to provide a consistent interface to information about computer systems; in this and the next chapter, ...
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