Also, take a peek on Scriptomatic V 2.0. It's a free download from MS and generates WMI scripts in Perl and another languages too.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=09dfc342-648b-4119- b7eb-783b0f7d1178&DisplayLang=en -Craig -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Martin Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 10:49 To: Roderick A. Anderson Cc: perl-win32-admin@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: Re: WMI, OLE and VBScript vs perl Theres a much better native windows tool for configuring adapters, and it plays nice with perl. It's called netsh, and it's in the help documents, and on line doc's are at MSDN Bob Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > If that subject doesn't heat a few up I must be losing my touch. > > Actually I have two questions so first some background. > > We have the mail for several domain's hosted on a Win2K servers ( > iMail > ) and just had a NIC start going south on us. Since there were so many > IPs bound to the adapter I went looking for a command line method to > enter them for the new NIC. > > Found David Roth's GetIPs.pl script to pull the values and some > VBScript > ( WMI ) code that set the values. Everything ( appeared to ) worked > fine on a test system. We then took the system down and replaced the > bad NIC. Brought the system back up , ran the VBScript and all the IPs > were entered. Problem was the IPs didn't bind to the adapter. It took > going through the list and making a null-edit to bind them. ( I suspect > it was because the old adapter entrys were still in the registry. ) > > So question one. Is there a (semi-)standard method to translate > VBScript and WMI to perl code ( Win32::OLE )? All my searching for a > pure Perl solution to get and set registry entrys and especially IPs > bound to adapters has been to no avail. Usually I could get the info OK > ( but was totally lost as to how the correct path was determined ) and I > have never got a Perl script to set/change/make a registry entry. > > Question two. What are your recommendations for reading on how to do > this kind of stuff and/or references to what registry entry holds what > data. > > > Rod _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list Perl-Win32-Admin@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list Perl-Win32-Admin@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
