Need help with wmi.get

[LenR]

It seems to be hard to find good info, I just want to translate "wmic bios get manufacturer" into a wmi.get[] item, but I can't find the proper key.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[ingus.vilnis]

Hi,

I know that this was not exactly what you asked for and I could not get proper WMI query either but maybe you can simply use this key?

system.run[wmic bios get manufacturer]

Worked for me.

Best Regards,
Ingus

[LenR]

I did, but by default the zabbix agent logs remote commands. Our old, brain dead monitor generates an alert for that message in the logs every time the command runs :-(

Deploying mass changes to our windows servers is NOT as easy as updating a puppet template, more :-(

I think this works:
wmi.get["root\cimv2","SELECT serialnumber FROM Win32_BIOS"]

I'm not updating this item very frequently, so I'm waiting to verify. It ends up that manufacture returns "Phoneix...somethign", serial number contains VMware.

[ingus.vilnis]

Hi,

Understandable about remote commands. They must be set to enabled in the agent config as well.

However your WMI query works brilliant on my PC!

WMI BIOS manufacturer
wmi.get["root\cimv2","SELECT manufacturer FROM Win32_BIOS"]
Hewlett-Packard

Glad that you found a solution!

Best Regards,
Ingus

[lovelmark]

If you have changed a board, and also not all BIOS codes are actually pre-entered. In that case it is necessary to boot into the BIOS of a machine with that issue, and enter it manually (from reading it off of the hardware itself.) In other words, if the machine is not very old, the response you are getting is the default response when no value is set (null).

http://net-informations.com/q/mis/wmic.html