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WMIC Global Options are used to set properties of the WMIC environment. You can pull data from a remote machine/node (or even a list of machines) you can also redirect output to a file. By default WMIC will retrieve data from the local machine and display on screen only.
Syntax WMIC [global_switches] <command> WMIC [global_switch:value] [global_switch:value] <command> WMIC CONTEXT global_switches: /NODE Servers to operate against: @filename machine_id <,machine id list> /FAILFAST FailFast mode:(timeout for connection to remote machine) ON, OFF /LOCALE Language id (ms_409=US) /OUTPUT Mode for output redirection: STDOUT, CLIPBOARD, <filename> /APPEND Mode for output redirection: STDOUT, CLIPBOARD, <filename> /RECORD Log all input commands and output: <FilePath> /INTERACTIVE Interactive mode:(prompt before WMI schema changes) ON, OFF /USER User for this session: <domain>\<userid> /PASSWORD Password for session login. <password> /PRIVILEGES Enable or disable all privileges: ENABLE, DISABLE /NAMESPACE Path for the namespace the alias operates against. /ROLE Path for the role containing the alias definitions. /TRACE Output debugging information to stderr. ON, OFF /IMPLEVEL Client impersonation level: Anonymous,Identify,Impersonate,Delegate /AUTHLEVEL Client authentication level: Default,None,Connect,Call,Pkt,Pktintegrity,Pktprivacy /AGGREGATE Aggregate mode: (column titles) ON, OFF CONTEXT - Display the current state of all global switches. CLASS - Escape to full WMI schema. PATH - Escape to full WMI object paths. QUIT/EXIT - Exit WMIC
Notes
If any value
e.g. a path or machine_id contains special characters like '-' or
'/'
Enclose
the value in double
quotes
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for
it." - Henry David Thoreau
Related Commands:
WMIC - Main page with Examples
MOF (Managed Object Format) - A language that describes management
information. The MOF syntax is a way to
describe object definitions in textual form.