Chapter 8. Proactive Troubleshooting with WMI Events

By the time you have read this far, you will have realized that WMI can be an invaluable part of any system administration armory. After all, not many tools out there enable you to write scripts that can check, report on, and configure an entire fleet of Windows workstations and servers, all without even leaving your desk! Despite all this, you may be a little surprised at the title of this chapter. WMI, as we have described it, may be powerful, but it is surely of somewhat limited use as a troubleshooting tool because its operation requires too much administrative intervention. It might not be hard to write scripts using WMI that report on the health of your computers and even solve specific ...

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