I wanted to be able to gather the system serial numbers and the attached monitors serial numbers and then generate a report.
Serial numbers for the main computer was already in WMI (\\.\root\CIMV2\Win32_BIOS\SerialNumber) and I could already get that information. I found a VBS utility that would add the monitor serial number to WMI ( I am not a VBS person so I can't offer support or enhancements to the VBS utility). Then using the ghost console I can grab that from WMI and generate a report. But I needed to add the new WMI to the Collected Data. The detailed step-by-step guide should allow you to add your own custom WMI elements and be able to generate GSS 2.5 reports on them.
Needed: monsernum.vbs - attached below rename from monsernum.txt to monsernum.vbs
C:\Utils\Berning>"C:\WINDOWS\system32\cscript.exe" c:\utils\berning\monsernum.vbs Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved. WMI Found, Processing Continues WMI Monitor key 1: DISPLAY\DEFAULT_MONITOR\5&2CA6D679&0&10000000&06&05 Processing Other Displays EDID not found Monitor manufactured in December of 1995 No monitor serial number found. Possibly the computer is a laptop. No monitor model name was found. Possibly the computer is a laptop. Monitor manufactured in December of 1999 Monitor serial number: HI94635224 Monitor model name: M70B Processing WMI Classes and Properties Creating Monitors Class for CimV2 Namespace added data class to CimV2 Namespace wrote the data to WMI Script Finished
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