How do you input data to a WMI call?

[duncanchaos]

I am a System Engineer with Toshiba and we are implementing the ability to change our BIOS settings via WMI.on some of our business class laptop models.  I have the full documentation on what fields can be modified and have plenty of VBS and Powershell sample code that is working.  I am very experienced with AutoIT and would like to be able to use AutoIT do handle these tasks.

Using AutoIT the WMI queries are working without issue but AutoIT does not seem to be able to handle the syntax required to input data to a WMI field.  Here is a snip of the VBS code to change a setting via WMI:

For Each objItem in colItems

      objItem.SetBiosSetting strInParamValue, strReturn

Next

 

 

The strinParamValue variable contains the setting name and value. Here is the corresponding AutoIT code:

 

For $objItem in $colItem

    $Return = $objItem.SetBiosSetting $InParamValue

Next

 

 

AutoIT rejects the variable $inParamValue as incorrect syntax.  Does anyone know how to get AutoIT to feed the string contained in the variable back to the call so that the BIOS setting is changed?  Is AutoIT incapable of doing this?

 

Thanks

Edited August 8, 2013 by duncanchaos

[FireFox]

Hi,

Something like this I guess :

$objItem.SetBiosSetting($strInParamValue, $strReturn)

Br, FireFox.

[JLogan3o13]

Something like this:

$strInParamValue = ""
$strReturn = ""

For $obj in $colItems
$obj.SetBiosSetting($strInParamValue, $strReturn)
Next

Well hell - too slow

Edited August 8, 2013 by JLogan3o13

[FireFox]

I'm not going to be defeated again 

[duncanchaos]

Thanks guys. I spent too long searching the forum for this and you guys nailed it in 10 minutes. I have tested and your syntax works.

I really appreciate the info!

JD Duncan

Senior Systems Engineer

Toshiba America Information Systems

[JLogan3o13]

If you have other WMI related questions, I would highly suggest taking a look at AutoIt Script-o-Matic in the downloads section. Written by our very own Overlord Jon, it will show you the code for most everything you would like to do.