Yes, you could do what you want, generally probably you would want a new 
collector. I'm not aware of anything already built to do this. I'm not 
really sure how you would do this, but the Zenoss Dev guide and Dev 
forum plus other searches may help.
--
James Pulver
Information Technology Area Supervisor
LEPP Computer Group
Cornell University



drazzi wrote, On 4/27/2009 2:45 PM:
> I chose Zenoss because of it's ability to collect information using WMI, 
> however it appears that exactly what could be collected was misleading.  I do 
> not want to run an SNMP client on my windows servers, however would like to 
> have the inventory for OS, Hardware, and Software populated.  Could someone 
> provide some insight as to whether this is actually possible with Zenoss Core?
> 
> I understand it is possible to define commands with wmic to query WMI, how 
> would one map the output from those commands into the fields for the 
> Hardware, OS, and Software tabs when viewing a device?
> 
> Is it possible to develop a new collector plugin similar to the 
> "Zenoss.snmp.*map" plugins to map WMI data to populate those tabs?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.  Zenoss looks great if I can solve the data 
> collection issue.
> 
> 
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