It has cropped up from time to time that we need to retrieve information, in this example, the MAC address from remotely located workstations.
WMIC is a system utility program for interacting with Microsoft WMI API (Windows Management Instrumentation Application Programming Interface). You can issue queries on exposed/available namespaces to ask the system to provide hardware and softwar. MAC Address Table Type “MAC” The special table types supported by CONNECT are the Virtual table type (VIR - introduced in MariaDB 10.0.15), Directory Listing table type (DIR), the Windows Management Instrumentation Table Type (WMI), and the “Mac Address” type (MAC).
- The Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Provider plug-in. These three plug-ins support event forwarding, configuration, and WMI access. ClientCertificate: You can create and configure a client certificate. A client certificate is used when the WS-Management client is.
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While, as it goes in the world of system administration, many ways to skin such a cat, I am going to leverage both the power and versatility of Powershell combined with the vast information warehouse that is WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation). Manual 801 powermaster tractor.
If your remote computer is a basic configuration then we can start of something simple
In the above example, we are using the gwmi cmdlet (alias of Get-WMIObject and are interchangeable), pointing to a remote workstation with -ComputerName switch, filtered out information requested with the -Class switch, wrapping it all in brackets so we can retrieve just the returned Powershell MACAddress property.
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Hopefully you will be returned a MAC Address.
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However, you may find that if the device has multiple network adapters (such as teredo tunnelling for IPv6, hypervisor bridges, VPN TAPs) you are getting more noise than needed:
Never fear though, we have the technology. If you know more information about the network adapter that you want the MAC address from, we can apply filtering to the original query to bring precious to our result.
If you know the IP address of the network adapter:
Or if you know the type of network adapter:
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There you have it. A quick little one liner that taps into the vast depth of information from the WMI database via Powershell power. It is certainly worth playing around with the properties that the above WMI query can provide in return as the information stored is vast and can lead to endless amounts of utility in your future Powershell magic.
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