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Cole_McDonald
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4 months ago

CIM vs. WMI as native 'Source type

Has anyone heard if LM has any plans in place to make the move from WMI to CIM for metrics grabs in general and Windows in specific? https://thinkpowershell.com/powershell-and-common-information-mo...
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Joe_Williams
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4 months ago

I would wish for CIM as it would allow for PowerShell CLI on Linux and make allowing a Linux collector that monitors Windows possible.

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    Cole_McDonald
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    3 months ago

    That would remove the Windows License tax for adding collectors to customer enviornments... which isn't a huge deal for in-house monitoring... but as an MSP, we have to have a collector for every client of ours.  So the costs scale quickly.