Re: Linux and WMI
- From: James Crosswell <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:25:42 +0200
Leszek wrote:
Hello!
My question is: "Can i access WMI on Windows XP from Linux station?". I have an application and i want to write the same in C++ under Linux. But i need to access Windows servers from Linux. I need few WMI properties and wrote it to the XML. Is there any possibility?
I don't think so. WMI access remotely runs over RPC - which is a binary protocol and I don't think it exists on Linux.
At fist, when I read about WMI, I though - Great! The industry is creating standards and we'll see interoperability... but it seems each the standard is simply CIM - a way to store the information, not a way to access it... What would have been really good is if WMI (and all the other vendor's implementations of CIM) acted as a web service, but that would seemingly provide a little too much interoperability for the likes of the various different vendors.
Please correct me if I'm wrong - I'd be very interested in doing the reverse (accessing Linux machines from a windows program). The research I've done so far though basically indicates I'd have to write a client to deploy on each linux box which would send information back to the windows clients, as XML, over a standard protocol like http or smtp.
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Best Regards,
James Crosswell Software Engineer Microforge.net Limited http://www.microforge.net .
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