Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Sorry for the absence. Did your heart grow fonder?

For the few, and by few I mean very few, that read these posts I want to come right out and say sorry.  Sorry I've been away so long!  I took a new job last year with <insert major global conglomeration> and have been completely swamped the past few months writing new code in HTA format for a new solution, possibly to be patented.  We'll have to see how that goes.

In celebration of the hard work I've been doing, I have decided to start some code examples on HTA programming and how you can add a spiffy GUI to your existing scripts.  Neat?  You bet.  Stay tuned and I promise not to leave you hanging.

-Corey

Function GetChassisType

Just ran across the need to determine what kind of machine I am running a script on.  I needed to detect whether or not the machine was a laptop or desktop.  Just so happens that WMI provides a nifty class for this.

As you check out the function below, notice some of the really odd chassis types available.  How many of you have a "pizza box" or "lunchbox" chassis?

 

Function getChassisType(sstrComputer)
'Global: Dim intChassisType to reference by number
'Returns a string value of the type.    
    
    Set sobjWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
        & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & sstrComputer & "\root\cimv2")
    
    Set colChassis = sobjWMIService.ExecQuery _
        ("Select ChassisTypes from Win32_SystemEnclosure")
    
    For Each objChassis in colChassis
        For i = Lbound(objChassis.ChassisTypes) to Ubound(objChassis.ChassisTypes)
            intChassisType =  objChassis.ChassisTypes(i)
        Next
    Next
    
    Select Case intChassisType
        Case 1
            getChassisType = "Other"
        Case 2
            getChassisType = "Unknown"
        Case 3
            getChassisType = "Desktop"
        Case 4
            getChassisType = "Low Profile Desktop"
        Case 5
            getChassisType = "Pizza Box"
        Case 6
            getChassisType = "Mini Tower"
        Case 7
            getChassisType = "Tower"
        Case 8
            getChassisType = "Portable"
        Case 9
            getChassisType = "Laptop"
        Case 10
            getChassisType = "Notebook"
        Case 11
            getChassisType = "Hand Held"
        Case 12
            getChassisType = "Docking Station"
        Case 13
            getChassisType = "All in One"
        Case 14
            getChassisType = "Sub Notebook"
        Case 15
            getChassisType = "Space-Saving"
        Case 16
            getChassisType = "Lunch Box"
        Case 17
            getChassisType = "Main System Chassis"
        Case 18
            getChassisType = "Expansion Chassis"
        Case 19
            getChassisType = "SubChassis"
        Case 20
            getChassisType = "Bus Expansion Chassis"
        Case 21
            getChassisType = "Peripheral Chassis"
        Case 22
            getChassisType = "Storage Chassis"
        Case 23
            getChassisType = "Rack Mount Chassis"
        Case 24
            getChassisType = "Sealed-Case PC"
        Case Else
            getChassisType = "Unknown"
    End Select
    Set sobjWMIService = Nothing     
 
End Function

 

Enjoy the code and as always, let me know if this script helps you out!

 

-Corey Thomas

MCSE/MCSA/MCDBA/Security+,CIW Associate