gordon
6/1/2007 10:08:00 PM
> > > Any help? I know it can be done with vbscript and wmi, but I really
> > > really want to accomplish this using some ruby as I am trying to
> > > introduce more of it in our company
> > >
> Additionally you can use WMI through Win32OLE, and issue the commands that way.
I've been playing around with a library that would provide an activerecord style interface to WMI. So, instead of this:
<code>
require 'win32ole'
LOGOFF = 0
computer_name = 'host'
wmi = WIN32OLE.connect("winmgmts:\\\\#{computer_name}\\root\\cimv2")
list = wmi.execquery("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem",nil,48)
list.each do |item|
item.win32Shutdown(LOGOFF)
end
</code>
You'd have something like this:
<code>
require 'wmi' # or whatever it's going to be called
LOGOFF = 0
computer_name = 'host'
os = WMI::Win32_OperatingSystem.new(computer_name)
host = os.find(:first, :condition => {:primary => true})
host.win32shutdown(LOGOFF)
</code>
My aim is to have an easier to read, more rubyesque way to work with WMI. I've been thinking about opening a rubyforge project if there's any interest. But I don't know what to call the thing. Here is a list of names I've come up with. I don't really like any of them, though, so I'm open to other suggestions.
active_wmi
ar_wmi
wmi_rb
ruby-wmi
rWMI
wmi4r
Thanks,
Gordon