WMI Browser

To use the port scanner,

• Click on the WMI Browser button (Magnifier with a blue W letter) of the Operation toolbar
  or
• Right click on a node and select the WMI Browser menu.

The browser offers the following features:

• Computer Name / IP Address: type the NetBIOS name, the FQDN or the IP address of node. By default, NetworkView enters the name or address o the currently selected node. You can use the list box to see what are the proposals.
• Namespace: the default is root\cimv2. WMI Security explains how to have access to the Management Console that displays the whole WMI structure tree and its security.
• User: the user name that will be used to access the node. Do not specify the domain in this field.
• Password: the password that will be used to access the node.
• Domain: the password that will be used together with the user name. Enter a NetBIOS name, not a DNS domain (MYDOM, and not mydom.com, for example

Using blank values for all 3 above will use your own user credentials. This gives access to the local machine, and potentially to all machines in the domain if your are a domain administrator.

• Connect: try to connect to the local or remote node with the previous account values. If connect is successful, this button will change to Disconnect.
• Available Classes: Contains all available WMI classes on the node if connect was successful.
• Win32_: filters only the classes starting with Win32_
• Get: Choose one of the classes in Available Classes and press Get to execute the WQL query. This will return a table with all columns and rows in this class. The content of each class and it meaning can be found in the Microsoft's WMI Reference (available on their Web site).