Remote WMI

Network Scanner User Manual

About

Introduction

Licence agreement

Scanning

Getting started

Scan ranges and modes

Scan options

Working with results

Discovery

DHCP server discovery

Device discovery

Duplicate IP detection

Windows Queries

WMI

Registry

Files

Services

Groups

Performance

PowerShell

Scripting (VBScript)

VBScript reference

Cross-Platform Queries

SNMP

SSH

XML and JSON

Nmap integration

Python

Operations

Device management

Live monitoring

Background scanning

Device history

Friendly names and comments

Data management

Advanced

Customisation

Credentials and security

Command line

Product Page & Download

WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) provides access to a wide range of system information on Windows devices. Choose Options → Remote WMI from the menu or press Ctrl+W.

Remote WMI dialog

The dialog shows three columns: Item Name, WQL Statement and Name Space. Queries are written in WQL (WMI Query Language), which is similar to SQL.

Click New to open the WMI Query Builder. It connects to your local WMI subsystem and lets you browse available classes and properties. Select a WMI Class and the result set will show its parameters with example values. You can also click Find Class or Property to search across all classes. Click Test to verify your query.

WMI query results in scan output

WMI query results shown as additional columns.

Encrypted connection (packet privacy authentication) : When enabled, WMI communication is encrypted for added security.

auditing installed RAM across all PCs

Create a WMI query with the class Win32_PhysicalMemory and select the Capacity parameter. After scanning, a new column will show the total physical memory installed on each Windows device. Export the results to a CSV file for your asset inventory.