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In NMIS version 8.6.0 we've added support for collecting data from Windows systems using the Windows Management Instrumentation infrastructure (or short WMI). This

This page describes how to approach modelling devices for WMI, and where WMI modelling differs from modelling for SNMP.

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To collect WMI data NMIS has to use a WMI access tool. As of NMIS 8.6.0 we are using wmic, a commandline tool belonging to the Samba software suite.

NMIS 8.6.0 ships with a precompiled wmic program, and installs it as /usr/local/nmis8/bin/wmic. If the precompiled version should not work on your platform, the installer will notify you of that problem and you'll have to perform a manual build of wmic. The sources for wmic can be downloaded here: http://dl-nmis.opmantek.com/wmic-omk.tgz and you shouldn't have to do more than unpack that, and run make. When the build is complete, you should copy the resulting  wmic file to /usr/local/nmis8/bin/.

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