Hi

Does anyone know if there is a WMI class I can query to list network connections (like netstat) on a remote host? I have trawled through them with WMIExporer but I am yet to find one.

Or is there a way with Powershell that I can call netstat on a remote host.

Any ideas would be greatly appeaciated.

Thanks

Lee

What OS are you dealing with? WSMAN aka WinRM may help:
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/How-Windows-Server-2008-WinRM-WinRS.html

That's what PowerShell v2 remoting uses. You can actually use it with v1, but would need PowerShell on the remote end also.

I don't think you'll get very far with WMI. Check out this Get-Netstat script though, it "objectizes" the output from netstat.exe.

http://poshcode.org/558

The OS i'll be wanting to query will be Windows 2003 and I'm using powershell v1. Unfortunately I can't put PowerShell on the remote hosts just yet.

Hal - thanks for the link. I had already seen this both on your blog and in the script repository.

Then psexec + netstat.exe will be one way to get it done. You could modify get-netstat to do all the work.