Relate to: System utility, System Management, Console, Device management

Default location: %WinDir%\System32\wbem\WMIC.exe

Useful information about: WMIC.exe

Description: WMI Commandline Utility

Version: 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205)

Size: 624128 (609K)

MD5: 9067E023FDA8C5BC0A8B8F3B093CACE2

WMIC.EXE is a command-line utility to access Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).

Usage:

The following global switches are available:

/NAMESPACE Path for the namespace the alias operate against.

/ROLE Path for the role containing the alias definitions.

/NODE Servers the alias will operate against.

/IMPLEVEL Client impersonation level.

/AUTHLEVEL Client authentication level.

/LOCALE Language id the client should use.

/PRIVILEGES Enable or disable all privileges.

/TRACE Outputs debugging information to stderr.

/RECORD Logs all input commands and output.

/INTERACTIVE Sets or resets the interactive mode.

/FAILFAST Sets or resets the FailFast mode.

/USER User to be used during the session.

/PASSWORD Password to be used for session login.

/OUTPUT Specifies the mode for output redirection.

/APPEND Specifies the mode for output redirection.

/AGGREGATE Sets or resets aggregate mode.

/AUTHORITY Specifies the for the connection.

/?[: ] Usage information.

For more information on a specific global switch, type: switch-name /?

The following alias/es are available in the current role:

ALIAS - Access to the aliases available on the local system

BASEBOARD - Base board (also known as a motherboard or system boa

rd) management.

BIOS - Basic input/output services (BIOS) management.

BOOTCONFIG - Boot configuration management.

CDROM - CD-ROM management.

COMPUTERSYSTEM - Computer system management.

CPU - CPU management.

CSPRODUCT - Computer system product information from SMBIOS.

DATAFILE - DataFile Management.

DCOMAPP - DCOM Application management.

DESKTOP - User's Desktop management.

DESKTOPMONITOR - Desktop Monitor management.

DEVICEMEMORYADDRESS - Device memory addresses management.

DISKDRIVE - Physical disk drive management.

DISKQUOTA - Disk space usage for NTFS volumes.

DMACHANNEL - Direct memory access (DMA) channel management.

ENVIRONMENT - System environment settings management.

FSDIR - Filesystem directory entry management.

GROUP - Group account management.

IDECONTROLLER - IDE Controller management.

IRQ - Interrupt request line (IRQ) management.

JOB - Provides access to the jobs scheduled using the sche

dule service.

LOADORDER - Management of system services that define execution d

ependencies.

LOGICALDISK - Local storage device management.

LOGON - LOGON Sessions.

MEMCACHE - Cache memory management.

MEMORYCHIP - Memory chip information.

MEMPHYSICAL - Computer system's physical memory management.

NETCLIENT - Network Client management.

NETLOGIN - Network login information (of a particular user) mana

gement.

NETPROTOCOL - Protocols (and their network characteristics) managem

ent.

NETUSE - Active network connection management.

NIC - Network Interface Controller (NIC) management.

NICCONFIG - Network adapter management.

NTDOMAIN - NT Domain management.

NTEVENT - Entries in the NT Event Log.

NTEVENTLOG - NT eventlog file management.

ONBOARDDEVICE - Management of common adapter devices built into the m

otherboard (system board).

OS - Installed Operating System/s management.

PAGEFILE - Virtual memory file swapping management.

PAGEFILESET - Page file settings management.

PARTITION - Management of partitioned areas of a physical disk.

PORT - I/O port management.

PORTCONNECTOR - Physical connection ports management.

PRINTER - Printer device management.

PRINTERCONFIG - Printer device configuration management.

PRINTJOB - Print job management.

PROCESS - Process management.

PRODUCT - Installation package task management.

QFE - Quick Fix Engineering.

QUOTASETTING - Setting information for disk quotas on a volume.

RDACCOUNT - Remote Desktop connection permission management.

RDNIC - Remote Desktop connection management on a specific ne

twork adapter.

RDPERMISSIONS - Permissions to a specific Remote Desktop connection.

RDTOGGLE - Turning Remote Desktop listener on or off remotely.

RECOVEROS - Information that will be gathered from memory when th

e operating system fails.

REGISTRY - Computer system registry management.

SCSICONTROLLER - SCSI Controller management.

SERVER - Server information management.

SERVICE - Service application management.

SHADOWCOPY - Shadow copy management.

SHADOWSTORAGE - Shadow copy storage area management.

SHARE - Shared resource management.

SOFTWAREELEMENT - Management of the elements of a software product ins

talled on a system.

SOFTWAREFEATURE - Management of software product subsets of SoftwareEle

ment.

SOUNDDEV - Sound Device management.

STARTUP - Management of commands that run automatically when us

ers log onto the computer system.

SYSACCOUNT - System account management.

SYSDRIVER - Management of the system driver for a base service.

SYSTEMENCLOSURE - Physical system enclosure management.

SYSTEMSLOT - Management of physical connection points including po

rts, slots and peripherals, and proprietary connections points.

TAPEDRIVE - Tape drive management.

TEMPERATURE - Data management of a temperature sensor (electronic t

hermometer).

TIMEZONE - Time zone data management.

UPS - Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) management.

USERACCOUNT - User account management.

VOLTAGE - Voltage sensor (electronic voltmeter) data management

.

VOLUME - Local storage volume management.

VOLUMEQUOTASETTING - Associates the disk quota setting with a specific dis

k volume.

VOLUMEUSERQUOTA - Per user storage volume quota management.

WMISET - WMI service operational parameters management.

For more information on a specific alias, type: alias /?

CLASS - Escapes to full WMI schema.

PATH - Escapes to full WMI object paths.

CONTEXT - Displays the state of all the global switches.

QUIT/EXIT - Exits the program.

For more information on CLASS/PATH/CONTEXT, type: (CLASS | PATH | CONTEXT) /?

Read more: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290216/

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