Question

WMI, query for DNS?

Asked by: pragmadrift

Hello

I need some help here. I have created this WQL script:

SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration WHERE DNSserversearchorder "%IP%"

Don't know if the DNSserversearchorder is the right one, and how can i test to se if it is right?

thx for all reply's

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2009-10-27 at 04:08:08ID24846746
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Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

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by: xxdcmastPosted on 2009-10-27 at 05:12:48ID: 25671458

Try saving this code as a vbs file. This will run the query you mentioned above for the DNSserversearchorder. On my machine when I run it it does return the results for my two DNS servers.

What exactly are you trying to do maybe I can offer a suggestion?

strComputer = "." 
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2") 
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery( _
    "SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration",,48) 
For Each objItem in colItems 
    If isNull(objItem.DNSServerSearchOrder) Then
        Wscript.Echo "DNSServerSearchOrder: "
    Else
        Wscript.Echo "DNSServerSearchOrder: " & Join(objItem.DNSServerSearchOrder, ",")
    End If
Next

                                              
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by: pragmadriftPosted on 2009-10-27 at 07:53:39ID: 25673048

Okey thx for reply. I am running SCCM and and I have a Task sequence, that neeed to rund only if the right condition is true. So to do a WQL and se if there is a match beweet the client DNS and the Task DNS. The client will start the right  task.


I need to query for the client DNS , and if that condition is true. The client wil start the right task.

So I need a way to run a WMI query that resolves the DNS server.

SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration WHERE DNSserversearchorder "%IP%"

I am having trouble with the DNSserversearchorder, is there another class to use?

 

by: xxdcmastPosted on 2009-10-27 at 08:18:18ID: 25673337

I think the problem you are running into here is that the DNSserversearchorder doesnt return an individual result but rather the results of an array. On my machine I have 2 DNS servers configured and when I run that query above it returns both values as the result. If you had more DNS servers configured you would have those values as results as well.

I dont know if you can compare an individual value against an array. Unfortunately I do not know where to lead you on this.

 

by: pragmadriftPosted on 2009-10-28 at 01:55:06ID: 25681059


Okey, do you have any Idea how I can run a query somthing like i posted?

To get the gateway og DNS or just the two first octets in ip address?

thx for reply!

 

by: pragmadriftPosted on 2009-11-03 at 00:36:04ID: 25726969

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by: grayePosted on 2009-11-04 at 14:02:04ID: 25744465

One of the crazy things about the WMI Query Language is that you can't do a WHERE clause on an array.   Unforntuately, DNSServerSearchOrder is an array.

So, you're forced to do some coding to extract the elements of the array and test them individually.

 

by: pragmadriftPosted on 2009-11-09 at 23:57:59ID: 25783246

Hello again.

After googleing around for some time I found my answer. Instead of query for the DNS, I was able to querrry for the right Active directory site and that worked perfect. So here is the query i Used:

SELECT * FROM Win32_NTDomain WHERE ClientSiteName LIKE '%Active Directory site name%'

thx for reply's

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