WMI with IronPython

From IronPython Cookbook

Examples from Vasta Sutra, of using the managed interface to WMI on the local system.

These examples use objects from the System.Management assembly:

import clr
clr.AddReference("System.Management")
from System.Management import (
    ManagementObject,
    ManagementObjectSearcher
)

mo = ManagementObject("Win32_Processor.DeviceID='CPU0'")
for p in mo.Properties: 
    print p.Name, '=', p.Value

query = ManagementObjectSearcher("Select * from Win32_Processor")
mo = query.Get().GetEnumerator().next()

mo = ManagementObject("Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_Processor.Name='_total'")
for p in mo.Properties: 
    print p.Name, '=', p.Value

This next example reports CPU usage:

import clr
clr.AddReference("System.Management")
from System.Management  import ManagementObject
from System.Threading import Thread

while True:
    mo = ManagementObject("Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_Processor.Name='_total'")
    print mo["PercentProcessorTime"]
    Thread.Sleep(5000)

This third example is adapted from this blog entry:

import clr
clr.AddReference("System.Management")
from System.Management import ManagementObjectSearcher

def requestWMI(squery,sproperties):
    output = ""
    objMgt = ManagementObjectSearcher(squery)
    for result in objMgt.Get():
        output += result.GetPropertyValue(sproperties)
    return output
    
print requestWMI("Select * from Win32_BIOS", "Caption")

This example is from an email on the mailing list from 2004:

import clr
clr.AddReference('System.Management')
from System.Management import (
    ManagementClass, ManagementScope,
    ManagementPath, ManagementObjectSearcher,
    WqlObjectQuery
)

def showAll(root):
    scope = ManagementScope(root)
    path = ManagementPath("__namespace")
    nsClass = ManagementClass(scope, path, None)
    for namespace in nsClass.GetInstances():
        print "-----"
        for nsProp in namespace.Properties:
            print nsProp.Name, ":", nsProp.Value
        print "--"
        scope = ManagementScope("root\\" + str(namespace.GetPropertyValue("Name")))
        searcher = ManagementObjectSearcher(scope, WqlObjectQuery("select * from meta_class"), None)
        for wmiClass in searcher.Get():
            print "Class:", wmiClass.GetPropertyValue("__CLASS")
 
showAll('root')

This fourth example is converted from C# from the ManagementEventWatcher page:

import clr
clr.AddReference('System.Management')
from System.Management import *

from System import TimeSpan


query = WqlEventQuery("__InstanceCreationEvent", TimeSpan(0, 0, 1), "TargetInstance isa \"Win32_Process\"")

watcher = ManagementEventWatcher()
watcher.Query = query
watcher.Options.Timeout = TimeSpan(0, 0, 5)

e = watcher.WaitForNextEvent()

# Start a new Win32 process (like notepad) before the timeout

instance = e['TargetInstance']

for entry in instance.Properties:
    print entry.Name, entry.Value

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