Friday, July 27th, 2007, is the 8th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication. Let's face it, System Administrators get no respect 364 days a year. This is the day that all fellow System Administrators across the globe, will be showered with expensive sports cars and large piles of cash in appreciation of their diligent work. But seriously, we are asking for a nice token gift and some public acknowledgement. It's the least you could ...

WARNING: I am not a programmer, I don't claim to be so it is quite likely that the code you will find here will horrify you! As part of my drive to monitor as much as possible of my systems I realised that creating an intermediate daemon for WMI would allow me to access some of the WMI properties that wouldn't normally be exposed via SNMP and graph them with MRTG. I'm not going to cover WMI in any great detail so if you'd like to do a bit more reading I would recommend reading through the Microsoft Knowledge Base article on WMI. As the title suggests the Windows Daemon has been ...