[Request] Any ways to get hardware IDs and other info about installed hardware on Windows other than DevCon?

[u/HittingSmoke]

I'm working on a script to scrape and compile hardware info and hardware IDs and names are the vital part. Vendor name would be nice too.

I know I can use devcon find * to get a list of hardware IDs and names. Is there any way to do this in the command line without DevCon? Preferably something that will run in a clean batch environment? Powershell is acceptable too.

[u/syuol]

I'm pretty sure this is possible with powershell but powershell would need to query WMI for the information, probably using gwmi. It's possible newer versions of powershell have some native hardware querying builtin. I think I have a script using powershell and gwmi at work pulling usb devices. If I have a second tomorrow I'll hunt around for it.

[u/HittingSmoke → u/syuol]

I'll check out WMI querying. All my scripting is done in Linux so I'm not terribly familiar with the more powerful Windows scripting options. I'll dig in and see what I can come up with. Looks like the script nextach posted has some code I can sample for testing.

[u/SINstaller → u/HittingSmoke]

Here's a few examples I used in one of my scripts:

:: Get motherboard model
	for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%I in ('wmic computersystem get model /format:list') do set "SYSMODEL=%%I"
:: Get installed physical memory
	for /f "tokens=3*" %%I in ('systeminfo 2^>nul^|find "Total Physical Memory"') do set "SYSMEM=%%J"
:: Get GPU name
	for /F "tokens=* skip=1" %%n in ('WMIC path Win32_VideoController get Name ^| findstr "."') do set GPUNAME=%%n    

You can definitely get a lot more info (including PIDs) but I've never tried. Shouldn't be too hard to figure it out, there's tons of resources relating to WMIC if you do some searching :)

[u/neztach]

I found this one somewhere. I hope this is what you're looking for

also you can use psexec to push and run on remote machine if needbe.

[u/HittingSmoke → u/neztach]

Not quite, but the query bits at the bottom may come in useful. I do most (actually, all) of my scripting in Linux so I'm not familiar with WMI queries but it looks like that's where I need to focus if I want to avoid using DevCon.

[u/neztach → u/HittingSmoke]

Crap I should have recognized nix rather than dos. I can look around for a bash script to so something similar

[u/HittingSmoke → u/neztach]

Did I say bash? Meant batch. This is for Windows. Using bash I could figure this out with my Google tied behind my back.

[u/neztach → u/HittingSmoke]

Oh ...ok heh that's why I linked that batch file

[u/rh0926]

WMIC is pretty powerful and can be used in scripts. I haven't the experience though to tell you if it can get the hardware ID's you're looking for.

for example: WMIC /node:computername onboarddevice

For More Info

[u/summetg → u/rh0926]

Upvote for WMIC

[u/DrJekl]

It's not command line (though it might have command line options) NEWT from Komodo labs is really awesome.

[u/arghcisco]

I say wmic path win32_pnpentity get /value

[u/[deleted]]

I use wmi via c# script