Namespace Settings

[JPS0073]

Hello,

Sweet little wrapper, just did not see any documentation for changing the namespace to which it connects.

Is there a way to change the name space? Example, I would like to connect to the namespace root/MicrosoftIISv2 instead of the default root/cimv2

Thanks

JS

[kanzure]

I am not sure, but maybe what you need could be found in libwmiclient? https://github.com/kanzure/libwmiclient

[JPS0073]

Hello,

Thanks for the response, will test it, but does it still the python wrapper? I see that it imports wmi-1.3.14.tar.bz2, so my question is it still a python wrapper. In short, the documentation includes the following option:

http://www.aldeid.com/wiki/Wmic-linux
--namespace=STRING
WMI namespace, default to root\cimv2

I don't quite understand the extensive library, and however I'm simply trying to include more options in my wmic:

import wmi_client_wrapper as wmi
wmic = wmi.WmiClientWrapper(username="LOCALDOMAIN/Adminsitrator",password="passwd1234",host="192.168.1.2",namespace="root/MicrosoftIISv2")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
TypeError: init() got an unexpected keyword argument 'namespace'
?

Looking into the code, wrapper.py there is section which includes additional params. However, I'm not a develoepr and do not know how to include this:

def _setup_params(self):
"""
Makes extra configuration that gets passed to wmic.
"""
return ["--delimiter={delimiter}".format(delimiter=self.delimiter)]

Thanks in advance

JS

[hemangikk]

I got same error while using. do we need to edit the file to add namespace?

[Kimsingh]

Is this resolved?

[kanzure]

Well, this whole project is unmaintained. Volunteers welcome!

[djloot]

Not sure if anyone cares, but putting this comment here for sake of someone finding this via a search.
The wmi_client_wrapper is indeed missing the namespace parameter. I'm guessing the issue is do to parsing and/or not fully testing it.
To address, you have to modify wrapper.py. For me, it was on /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wmi_client_wrapper.

On line 22, change it to the following (default namespace is still root\CIMV2, add an extra \ for obvious reasons) :
def __init__(self, username="Administrator", password=None, host=None, namespace="root\\CIMV2", delimiter="\01"):
On line 27, add the following line:
assert namespace
On line 32, add the following line:
self.namespace = namespace
On line 53, add the following 3 lines:

# the format for namespace
        namespace = "--namespace={namespace}".format(namespace=self.namespace)
        arguments.append(namespace)

To pass the parameter, the only issue is the syntax needs to be a little different. For OP (5 years ago, I get it), root/MicrosoftIISv2 will be passed in as:
namespace="root\\MicrosoftIISv2"

Lastly, not sure if it matters, but I deleted the pyc file once the change was made and recompile it.
So in my case, on /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wmi_client_wrapper
I ran:
python -m compileall .
that created the new wrapper.pyc