Simplest way to determine a remote OS?

[Kudzu309]

I can't find a built-in function (in v3.3) to determine a remote machine's operating system. What is the simplest way to determine this accurately? Also, the account I'm using does have administrative access to the remote machines, if that helps.

Thanks in advance!

[Xenobiologist]

Hi,

one simple way would be putting a script on a share which provides the/any info.

Mega

[tiuk]

I can't find a built-in function (in v3.3) to determine a remote machine's operating system. What is the simplest way to determine this accurately? Also, the account I'm using does have administrative access to the remote machines, if that helps.

Thanks in advance!

I'm new to AutoIt so unfortunately I don't know of a method of doing this with just AutoIt itself, but personally I'm a fan of combining multiple tools to suit a particular task. In this case, I would probably use something like nmap:

http://nmap.org/

It does a really good job of identifying the remote OS. It's also just an incredibly handy app to have around.

Hope that helped.

[weaponx]

You can use WMI if its an all Windows environment:

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; Generated by AutoIt Scriptomatic

$wbemFlagReturnImmediately = 0x10
$wbemFlagForwardOnly = 0x20
$colItems = ""
$strComputer = "localhost"

$Output=""
$Output = $Output & "Computer: " & $strComputer  & @CRLF
$Output = $Output & "==========================================" & @CRLF
$objWMIService = ObjGet("winmgmts:\\" & $strComputer & "\root\CIMV2")
$colItems = $objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem", "WQL", _
                                          $wbemFlagReturnImmediately + $wbemFlagForwardOnly)

If IsObj($colItems) then
   For $objItem In $colItems
      $Output = $Output & "BootDevice: " & $objItem.BootDevice & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "BuildNumber: " & $objItem.BuildNumber & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "BuildType: " & $objItem.BuildType & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "Caption: " & $objItem.Caption & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "CodeSet: " & $objItem.CodeSet & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "CountryCode: " & $objItem.CountryCode & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "CreationClassName: " & $objItem.CreationClassName & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "CSCreationClassName: " & $objItem.CSCreationClassName & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "CSDVersion: " & $objItem.CSDVersion & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "CSName: " & $objItem.CSName & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "CurrentTimeZone: " & $objItem.CurrentTimeZone & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "DataExecutionPrevention_32BitApplications: " & $objItem.DataExecutionPrevention_32BitApplications & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "DataExecutionPrevention_Available: " & $objItem.DataExecutionPrevention_Available & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "DataExecutionPrevention_Drivers: " & $objItem.DataExecutionPrevention_Drivers & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "DataExecutionPrevention_SupportPolicy: " & $objItem.DataExecutionPrevention_SupportPolicy & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "Debug: " & $objItem.Debug & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "Description: " & $objItem.Description & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "Distributed: " & $objItem.Distributed & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "EncryptionLevel: " & $objItem.EncryptionLevel & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "ForegroundApplicationBoost: " & $objItem.ForegroundApplicationBoost & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "FreePhysicalMemory: " & $objItem.FreePhysicalMemory & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "FreeSpaceInPagingFiles: " & $objItem.FreeSpaceInPagingFiles & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "FreeVirtualMemory: " & $objItem.FreeVirtualMemory & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "InstallDate: " & WMIDateStringToDate($objItem.InstallDate) & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "LargeSystemCache: " & $objItem.LargeSystemCache & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "LastBootUpTime: " & WMIDateStringToDate($objItem.LastBootUpTime) & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "LocalDateTime: " & WMIDateStringToDate($objItem.LocalDateTime) & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "Locale: " & $objItem.Locale & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "Manufacturer: " & $objItem.Manufacturer & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "MaxNumberOfProcesses: " & $objItem.MaxNumberOfProcesses & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "MaxProcessMemorySize: " & $objItem.MaxProcessMemorySize & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "Name: " & $objItem.Name & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "NumberOfLicensedUsers: " & $objItem.NumberOfLicensedUsers & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "NumberOfProcesses: " & $objItem.NumberOfProcesses & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "NumberOfUsers: " & $objItem.NumberOfUsers & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "Organization: " & $objItem.Organization & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "OSLanguage: " & $objItem.OSLanguage & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "OSProductSuite: " & $objItem.OSProductSuite & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "OSType: " & $objItem.OSType & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "OtherTypeDescription: " & $objItem.OtherTypeDescription & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "PlusProductID: " & $objItem.PlusProductID & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "PlusVersionNumber: " & $objItem.PlusVersionNumber & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "Primary: " & $objItem.Primary & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "ProductType: " & $objItem.ProductType & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "QuantumLength: " & $objItem.QuantumLength & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "QuantumType: " & $objItem.QuantumType & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "RegisteredUser: " & $objItem.RegisteredUser & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "SerialNumber: " & $objItem.SerialNumber & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "ServicePackMajorVersion: " & $objItem.ServicePackMajorVersion & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "ServicePackMinorVersion: " & $objItem.ServicePackMinorVersion & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "SizeStoredInPagingFiles: " & $objItem.SizeStoredInPagingFiles & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "Status: " & $objItem.Status & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "SuiteMask: " & $objItem.SuiteMask & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "SystemDevice: " & $objItem.SystemDevice & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "SystemDirectory: " & $objItem.SystemDirectory & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "SystemDrive: " & $objItem.SystemDrive & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "TotalSwapSpaceSize: " & $objItem.TotalSwapSpaceSize & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "TotalVirtualMemorySize: " & $objItem.TotalVirtualMemorySize & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "TotalVisibleMemorySize: " & $objItem.TotalVisibleMemorySize & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "Version: " & $objItem.Version & @CRLF
      $Output = $Output & "WindowsDirectory: " & $objItem.WindowsDirectory & @CRLF
      if Msgbox(1,"WMI Output",$Output) = 2 then ExitLoop
      $Output=""
   Next
Else
   Msgbox(0,"WMI Output","No WMI Objects Found for class: " & "Win32_OperatingSystem" )
Endif


Func WMIDateStringToDate($dtmDate)

    Return (StringMid($dtmDate, 5, 2) & "/" & _
    StringMid($dtmDate, 7, 2) & "/" & StringLeft($dtmDate, 4) _
    & " " & StringMid($dtmDate, 9, 2) & ":" & StringMid($dtmDate, 11, 2) & ":" & StringMid($dtmDate,13, 2))
EndFunc