Windows Tip: Determine bandwidth using WMI script
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I've been plugging the Windows Vista Resource Kit for the last couple of newsletters, and by now you're aware that this title will be available in bookstores on April 4th though you can pre-order it from Amazon and other sources. To whet your appetite, here's another tip drawn from this Resource Kit with permission of Microsoft Press. Did you know that you can use WMI to measure your machine's network bandwidth using a script? The Companion DVD included in this Resource Kit includes well over a hundred scripts and other resources for administering, deploying and troubleshooting Windows Vista, and one of these scripts let's you use the Win32_PerfFormattedData_Tcpip_NetworkInterface performance monitoring class to report network bandwidth for each local adapter on the machine. This can be useful when you want to see the actual bandwidth of a network adapter, for example when you want to troubleshoot situations where your adapter autodetects the wrong speed for the network.
To use this script, copy the text below into Notepad (with Word Wrap turned off) and save it as ReportBandwidth.vbs. To run this script on a Windows Vista machine, open an elevated command prompt and type cscript reportbandwidth.vbs /? to view a list of different arguments you can use with this script. Here's the script, minus some comments at the beginning:
Option Explicit
On Error Resume Next
dim strComputer
dim wmiNS
dim wmiQuery
dim objWMIService
Dim objLocator
dim colItems
dim objItem
Dim strUsr, strPWD, strLocl, strAuth, iFLag 'connect server parameters
Dim colNamedArguments 'WshNamed object
subCheckCscript 'check to see if running in cscript
Set colNamedArguments = WScript.Arguments.Named
strComputer = colNamedArguments("c")
subCheckArguments
wmiNS = "\root\cimv2"
wmiQuery = "Select CurrentBandwidth from Win32_PerfFormattedData_Tcpip_NetworkInterface"
strUsr = colNamedArguments("u") '""'Blank for current security. Domain\Username
strPWD = colNamedArguments("p") '""'Blank for current security.
strLocl = "" '"MS_409" 'US English. Can leave blank for current language
strAuth = ""'if specify domain in strUsr this must be blank
iFlag = "0" 'only two values allowed here: 0 (wait for connection) 128 (wait max two min)
Set objLocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
Set objWMIService = objLocator.ConnectServer(strComputer, _
wmiNS, strUsr, strPWD, strLocl, strAuth, iFLag)
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery(wmiQuery)
For Each objItem in colItems
Wscript.Echo funLine("Name: " & objItem.name)
Wscript.Echo "CurrentBandwidth: " & funConvert("M",objItem.CurrentBandwidth)
Next
' *** subs are below ***
Sub subCheckCscript
If UCase(Right(Wscript.FullName, 11)) = "WSCRIPT.EXE" Then
Wscript.Echo "This script must be run under CScript"
WScript.Quit
End If
end Sub
Sub subCheckArguments
If colNamedArguments.Count < 4 Then
If colNamedArguments.Exists("?") Then
WScript.Echo "Uses Win32_PerfFormattedData_Tcpip_NetworkInterface to determine bandwidth" _
& VbCrLf & "This script can take arguments. It will analyze bandwidth of network adapter"_
& VbCrLf & "This is useful when you want to see the actual bandwidth of a network adapter" _
& VbCrLf & "Perhaps to troubleshoot cases when the adapter autodetects the wrong speed" _
& VbCrLf & "Alternate credentials can ONLY be supplied for remote connections" _
& VbCrLf & "Try this: cscript " & WScript.ScriptName & " [/c:yourcomputername] [/u:domainName\UserName] [/p:password]" _
& VbCrLf & "Example: cscript " & WScript.ScriptName & " /c:london /u:nwtraders\londonAdmin /p:P@ssw0rd" _
& VbCrLf & vbTab & " Connects to a remote machine called london in the nwtraders domain with the londonAdmin user" _
& VbCrLf & vbTab & " account and the password of P@ssw0rd. It returns the speed of each network adapter" _
& VbCrLf & "Example: cscript " & WScript.ScriptName _
& VbCrLf & vbTab & " Returns the speed of each network adapter on local machine"
WScript.Quit
End If
WScript.Echo "checking arguments"
If Not colNamedArguments.Exists("c") Then
WScript.Echo "Executing on Local Machine only"
strComputer = "localHost"
End If
If Not colNamedArguments.Exists("u") Then
WScript.Echo "Executing using current user name"
strUsr = ""
End If
If Not colNamedArguments.Exists("p") Then
WScript.Echo "Executing using current user password"
strPWD = ""
End If
End If
If colNamedArguments.Count = 0 Then
Exit Sub
End If
End Sub
Function funConvert(strC,intIN)
Select Case strC
Case "K"
funConvert = formatNumber(intIN/1000) & " KiloBytes"
Case "M"
funConvert = formatNumber(intIN/1000000) & " MegaBytes"
Case "G"
funConvert = formatNumber(intIN/1000000000) & " GigaBytes"
End Select
End Function
Function funLine(lineOfText)
Dim numEQs, separator, i
numEQs = Len(lineOfText)
For i = 1 To numEQs
separator= separator & "="
Next
FunLine = VbCrLf & lineOfText & vbcrlf & separator
End Function
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