WMI 1.4.9

Windows Management Instrumentation

What is it?

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is Microsoft's implementation of Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM), an industry initiative to provide a Common Information Model (CIM) for pretty much any information about a computer system.

The Python WMI module is a lightweight wrapper on top of the pywin32 extensions, and hides some of the messy plumbing needed to get Python to talk to the WMI API. It's pure Python and should work with any version of Python from 2.1 onwards (list comprehensions) and any recent version of pywin32.

Where do I get it?

http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi/index.html

Copyright & License?

(c) Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> 5th June 2003 Licensed under the (GPL-compatible) MIT License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

How do I install it?

When all's said and done, it's just a module. But for those who like setup programs:

python setup.py install

It's also pip/easy_install-able

How do I use it?

There's a tutorial here: http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi/tutorial.html, and some examples at: http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi/cookbook.html but as a quick taster, try this, to show all stopped services:

import wmi

c = wmi.WMI ()
for s in c.Win32_Service ():
  if s.State == 'Stopped':
    print s.Caption, s.State

Prerequisites

If you're running a recent Python (2.1+) on a recent Windows (2k, 2k3, XP) and you have Mark Hammond's win32 extensions installed, you're probably up-and-running already. Otherwise...