Advanced VBScript for Microsoft® Windows® Administrators

Chapter 11. WMI Events

In this chapter:

Understanding WMI Events

Using Notification Queries

Using WMI Tools

Viewing WMI Events in Action

Summary

Managing events in Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is an important skill that will take your administrative scripting to the next level. Microsoft Windows is an event-driven operating system. By using WMI and VBScript, we can monitor events and take action when they occur. We’ll show you how to create WMI scripts that you can use as monitoring utilities.

Servers and desktops are dynamic systems: files are created and modified, services are started and stopped, processes are created and destroyed, and event logs are written. As an administrator, you might want to do something when one of these actions ...