Overview

NMIS versions 8.6 introduces support for a new data source in device models: Windows Management Instrumentation, or short WMI.

This this page describes how to model devices that  support WMI.

Prerequisites

installer ships with precompiled wmic, which may not work on a particular platform.

document where wmic sources are http://dl-nmis.opmantek.com/wmic-omk.tgz

that you should only have to unpack, and run make

resulting wmic needs to go into nmis8/bin/

Modelling of Devices with both WMI and SNMP support

both data source types can be used concurrently and in parallel in a single model, but see limitations below

Modelling Limitations

that for systemhealth stuff, BOTH sys and rrd sections must include indexed => actual field name, not just 'true'

that one systemhealth section can only have snmp or wmi, because one index governs the whole section

inefficiencies, queries are not rewritten to select only specific fields

inefficiencies, queries are also not rewritten when an indexed table row is fetched, so the whole table will be refetched