Hi,

I don't know which is best but you can also do WMI calls using the Win32::OLE module, see particularly the code in Win32::Process::Info(::WMI)

Almost immediate UPDATE:

The following (based on the first example in Planetscape's "Single line of code" link) works for me. The $WMI->Execute() call returns an object or list of objects which Data::Dumper displays here, should give you the info

use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dumper;

use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const;

use constant wbemFlagReturnImmediately => 0x10;
use constant wbemFlagForwardOnly => 0x20;

my $computer = "localhost";

my $WMI = Win32::OLE->GetObject("winmgmts:\\\\$computer\\root\\CIMV2")
+ or die "WMI connection failed.\n";
my @items = $WMI->ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_Processor", "WQL",
       wbemFlagReturnImmediately | wbemFlagForwardOnly);

print Dumper($_) for (@items);

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In reply to Re: PERL WMI call by Muggins
in thread PERL WMI call by Nar

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