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#91074 - 2003-01-16 06:34 PM WMI credential
gibilix gibilix Fresh Scripter Registered: 2001-05-04 Posts: 15 Loc: Rome, Italy	Hi, I'm running a kix logon script which uses WMI to collect information for inventory. Now it's fine because user's are administrators of their machines, but we want to move quickly to lock down the workstations and remove users from the loacl Admin group. At this point the WMI connection won't work anymore. Is there a way to specify the credential of an adminstrator being a LOCAL connection to the WMI provider? I know that I could start another script with SU, but i'd like to find another solution if possible, because SU is very slow to load the other user's environment. Thanks to all. Fabrizio _________________________ Fabrizio Gibilaro Desktop Administrator FAO of the UN
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#91075 - 2003-01-16 06:36 PM Re: WMI credential
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	You should take it out of the logon script entirely and run it as an admin script or a Task Scheduled script. _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#91076 - 2003-01-16 06:37 PM Re: WMI credential
Sealeopard Sealeopard KiX Master Registered: 2001-04-25 Posts: 11165 Loc: Boston, MA, USA	Run it from a central location under an administrative account. I don't think you need to collect hardware info every time a user logs in. _________________________ There are two types of vessels, submarines and targets.
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#91077 - 2003-01-17 12:27 AM Re: WMI credential
Radimus Radimus Moderator Registered: 2000-01-06 Posts: 5187 Loc: Tampa, FL	I wrote my inventory to collect hardware details like SN, CPU, video, make, model, HD, etc to one table... for 'static' one-time collected data. and a seperate one with SN, name, ram, modem, current user, etc. to a 'dynamic' table that is updated at every login. see my kix page to a view of the relationship table and a copy of the empty MDB BTW, if one of you access sql geniuses could write me op the 'table building' sql for access statements, I would be grateful. I'd like to be able to dynamically build the tables at need.. move it away for archival and the next user to login would be able to automatically create the mdb and create the tables... [ 17. January 2003, 00:30: Message edited by: Radimus ] _________________________ How to ask questions the smart way <-----------> Before you ask
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#91078 - 2003-01-17 04:36 AM Re: WMI credential
Sealeopard Sealeopard KiX Master Registered: 2001-04-25 Posts: 11165 Loc: Boston, MA, USA	Create a dummy Access DB that's empty (user copies it from network location) and use the CREATE TABLE statement on it. Feed it into DBCommand() and you've got a new database. _________________________ There are two types of vessels, submarines and targets.
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#91079 - 2003-01-17 10:26 AM Re: WMI credential
gibilix gibilix Fresh Scripter Registered: 2001-05-04 Posts: 15 Loc: Rome, Italy	Thanks vary much for your comments. I think I will opt for a light logon script collecting only essential information (those provided by kix macros) and move all the WMI stuff to another administrative script. Fabrizio _________________________ Fabrizio Gibilaro Desktop Administrator FAO of the UN
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