WMIC [global switches] <command>

The following global switches are available:

/NAMESPACE

Path for the namespace the alias operate against.

/ROLE

Path for the role containing the alias definitions.

/NODE

Servers the alias will operate against.

/IMPLEVEL

Client impersonation level.

/AUTHLEVEL

Client authentication level.

/LOCALE

Language id the client should use.

/PRIVILEGES

Enable or disable all privileges.

/TRACE

Outputs debugging information to stderr.

/RECORD

Logs all input commands and output.

/INTERACTIVE

Sets or resets the interactive mode.

/FAILFAST

Sets or resets the FailFast mode.

/USER

User to be used during the session.

/PASSWORD

Password to be used for session login.

/OUTPUT

Specifies the mode for output redirection.

/APPEND

Specifies the mode for output redirection.

/AGGREGATE

Sets or resets aggregate mode.

/AUTHORITY

Specifies the for the connection.

/?[:]

Usage information.

For more information on a specific global switch, type: switch-name /?

The following alias/es are available in the current role:

ALIAS

Access to the aliases available on the local system

BASEBOARD

Base board (also known as a motherboard or system board) management.

BIOS

Basic input/output services (BIOS) management.

BOOTCONFIG

Boot configuration management.

CDROM

CD-ROM management.

COMPUTERSYSTEM

Computer system management.

CPU

CPU management.

CSPRODUCT

Computer system product information from SMBIOS.

DATAFILE

DataFile Management.

DCOMAPP

DCOM Application management.

DESKTOP

User’s Desktop management.

DESKTOPMONITOR

Desktop Monitor management.

DEVICEMEMORYADDRESS

Device memory addresses management.

DISKDRIVE

Physical disk drive management.

DISKQUOTA

Disk space usage for NTFS volumes.

DMACHANNEL

Direct memory access (DMA) channel management.

ENVIRONMENT

System environment settings management.

FSDIR

Filesystem directory entry management.

GROUP

Group account management.

IDECONTROLLER

IDE Controller management.

IRQ

Interrupt request line (IRQ) management.

JOB

Provides access to the jobs scheduled using the schedule service.

LOADORDER

Management of system services that define execution dependencies.

LOGICALDISK

Local storage device management.

LOGON

LOGON Sessions.

MEMCACHE

Cache memory management.

MEMORYCHIP

Memory chip information.

MEMPHYSICAL

Computer system’s physical memory management.

NETCLIENT

Network Client management.

NETLOGIN

Network login information (of a particular user) management.

NETPROTOCOL

Protocols (and their network characteristics) management.

NETUSE

Active network connection management.

NIC

Network Interface Controller (NIC) management.

NICCONFIG

Network adapter management.

NTDOMAIN

NT Domain management.

NTEVENT

Entries in the NT Event Log.

NTEVENTLOG

NT eventlog file management.

ONBOARDDEVICE

Management of common adapter devices built into the motherboard (system board).

OS

Installed Operating System/s management.

PAGEFILE

Virtual memory file swapping management.

PAGEFILESET

Page file settings management.

PARTITION

Management of partitioned areas of a physical disk.

PORT

I/O port management.

PORTCONNECTOR

Physical connection ports management.

PRINTER

Printer device management.

PRINTERCONFIG

Printer device configuration management.

PRINTJOB

Print job management.

PROCESS

Process management.

PRODUCT

Installation package task management.

QFE

Quick Fix Engineering.

QUOTASETTING

Setting information for disk quotas on a volume.

RDACCOUNT

Remote Desktop connection permission management.

RDNIC

Remote Desktop connection management on a specific network adapter.

RDPERMISSIONS

Permissions to a specific Remote Desktop connection.

RDTOGGLE

Turning Remote Desktop listener on or off remotely.

RECOVEROS

Information that will be gathered from memory when the operating system fails.

REGISTRY

Computer system registry management.

SCSICONTROLLER

SCSI Controller management.

SERVER

Server information management.

SERVICE

Service application management.

SHADOWCOPY

Shadow copy management.

SHADOWSTORAGE

Shadow copy storage area management.

SHARE

Shared resource management.

SOFTWAREELEMENT

Management of the elements of a software product installed on a system.

SOFTWAREFEATURE

Management of software product subsets of SoftwareElement.

SOUNDDEV

Sound Device management.

STARTUP

Management of commands that run automatically when users log onto the computer system.

SYSACCOUNT

System account management.

SYSDRIVER

Management of the system driver for a base service.

SYSTEMENCLOSURE

Physical system enclosure management.

SYSTEMSLOT

Management of physical connection points including ports, slots and peripherals, and proprietary connections points.

TAPEDRIVE

Tape drive management.

TEMPERATURE

Data management of a temperature sensor (electronic thermometer).

TIMEZONE

Time zone data management.

UPS

Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) management.

USERACCOUNT

User account management.

VOLTAGE

Voltage sensor (electronic voltmeter) data management.

VOLUME

Local storage volume management.

VOLUMEQUOTASETTING

Associates the disk quota setting with a specific disk volume.

VOLUMEUSERQUOTA

Per user storage volume quota management.

WMISET

WMI service operational parameters management.

For more information on a specific alias, type: alias /?

CLASS

Escapes to full WMI schema.

PATH

Escapes to full WMI object paths.

CONTEXT

Displays the state of all the global switches.

QUIT/EXIT

Exits the program.

For more information on CLASS/PATH/CONTEXT, type: (CLASS | PATH | CONTEXT) /?