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Something like this already exists for Windows[1] There is apparently a standard[2] for exposing operating system objects into a schema that can have a standar
by jasonjayr 7y ago
Something like this already exists for Windows[1]
There is apparently a standard[2] for exposing operating system objects into a schema that can have a standard query.
I don't think I've ever seen any common monitoring projects built using WMI/WBEM at their core ...
[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wmisdk/about-wmi https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wmisdk/about-...
[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/921617/is-there-something-like-wmi-for-linux https://stackoverflow.com/questions/921617/is-there-somethin...
- jpcosta 7y agoafaik one of the main motivations that led to start osquery project was precisely to have a cross platform tool to allow collecting much needed information from all your hosts in an enterprise setting
- cryptonector 7y agoWhich WMI is when you call it CIM so there's no 'W' in it. Sun had an implementation too -- it was never really Windows-specific.