The Realm of the Verbal Processor

WMIC ConfigMgr Actions

A while back I was looking for a command line method of triggering inventory. Most of the posts that I found were vbscripts that could trigger the action via the control panel applet…but you ran into an issue with this method if you were triggering it on a 64bit OS…because the ConfigMgr applet is a 32bit applet….which can’t be triggered from the 64bit cscript. It can still be done by switching to the 32bit cscript, but it’s a bit cumbersome.

I was bouncing this issue off of Brian Mason, and he reminded me of a blog post by Kim Oppalfens re: triggering ConfigMgr stuff with WMIC. Kim’s post is specifically around adding right click actions to the ConfigMgr console, but they can be used from the command line also.

He lists a lot of them in his post (which I strongly encourage you to check out), but the two that I was needing for inventory are:

Hardware Inventory: WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule "{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001}"

Software Inventory: WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule "{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000002}"

If copying and pasting, be careful to ensure that the quotes are normal straight quotes instead of “smart quotes”.

Side note: if you have access to view the sessions from MMS this year, be sure to download and watch Kim’s session. It was re-scheduled for the last day because he was unable to fly earlier in the week because of the volcano in Iceland. There were only approx 50 of us at his session…but it was one of the best of the event…definitely 400 level.

September 3, 2010 - Posted by Jarvis | ConfigMgr