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WMI for the Command Line DBA

Jason MassieLead Database ConsultantTerremark Worldwide

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WMI For Command Line DBASession Agenda

WMI Tools and Utilities

What is WMI?

SQL Server as a WMI Provider

Why use WMI?

A WQL Primer

Technologies in Play

SQL Server as a WMI Consumer

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What Is WMI?An overview of WMI

What is Windows Management Interface?Extension of windows driver model that provides an OS interface to information and notificationsWMI is Microsoft's implementation of the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) and Common Information Model (CIM) standards from the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)

WMI and SQL ServerSQL Server as a providerSQL Server as a consumerSSIS as a consumer

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Why Do I Care About WMI?Benefits of tapping into WMI

Access OS data that was previously hard to get from SQLAccess trace data without running a traceLog DDL eventsAdd better intelligence to expensive queriesRespond to events in SSISAugment your monitoring system

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WMI Architecture

Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)Windows Management Interface (WMI)

WindowsPerfmon DataEventLogsHardwareDisk Usage Process InfoService infoMuch more!

SQL ServerTrace EventsDDL EventsSSIS TasksCustom Code

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WMI Tools And UtilitiesLet's start off with the GUI's

Microsoft toolsWMI Code CreatorScriptomatic 2.0WBEMTest

3rd PartyWMI ExplorerWQL AnalyzerMost monitoring tools

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WQL OverviewHey, that looks familiar…

Subset of ANSI SQLEvent query exampleSELECT * FROM __InstanceCreationEvent WITHIN 10 WHERE Targetinstance ISA "CIM_DirectoryContainsFile" and TargetInstance.GroupComponent= "Win32_Directory.Name=\"e:\\\\temp\""

Data query exampleSelect * from Win32_NTLogEvent Where Logfile = ‘Application' and EventType = ‘error' and SourceName like ‘%SQL%’

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WMI Tools and Utilities

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Technologies In PlayA partial list

Consumers.NetVBScriptPowerShellSSIS3rd Party

ProvidersSQL ServerWindowsHardware

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Quick and Dirty

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CLR Integration

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Displaying WMI data in SSRS

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Powershell

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WMI Provider for Server Events

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Let’s Connect

Email: jason@statisticsio.comBlog: http://statisticsio.comRSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/statisticsioLinkedIN: http://linkedin.com/in/jasonmassieTwitter: http://twitter.com/statisticsioFriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/statisticsio

I welcome questions or comments. I am open to networking.

Track Resources

Resource 1 My blog – http://statisticsio.comResource 1 My blog – http://statisticsio.com

Resource 2 MSDN WMI Class Reference - Resource 2 MSDN WMI Class Reference - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394554%28VS.85%29.aspxhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394554%28VS.85%29.aspx

Resource 3 MSDN PowerShell Reference - Resource 3 MSDN PowerShell Reference - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb905330.aspxhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb905330.aspx

Resource 4 – MSDN SQL Reference - Resource 4 – MSDN SQL Reference - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb545450.aspxhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb545450.aspx

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