Discover Windows 7 Operating System

Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win7.OperatingSystem.Discovery (Discovery)

This rule discovers the Windows 7 Operating System.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

This Discovery Rule discovers and populates the Windows 7 class named “Windows 7 Operating System” with instances of Windows 7 Operating Systems.

Element properties:

TargetMicrosoft.Windows.Client.Computer
EnabledTrue
Frequency14400
RemotableFalse

Object Discovery Details:

Discovered Classes and their attribuets:

Member Modules:

ID Module Type TypeId RunAs 
DiscoveryDataSource DataSource Microsoft.Windows.FilteredRegistryDiscoveryProvider Default

Source Code:

<Discovery ID="Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win7.OperatingSystem.Discovery" Enabled="true" Target="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Client.Computer">
<Category>Discovery</Category>
<DiscoveryTypes>
<DiscoveryClass TypeID="Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win7.OperatingSystem"/>
</DiscoveryTypes>
<DataSource ID="DiscoveryDataSource" TypeID="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.FilteredRegistryDiscoveryProvider">
<ComputerName>$Target/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/NetworkName$</ComputerName>
<RegistryAttributeDefinitions>
<RegistryAttributeDefinition>
<AttributeName>WindowsCurrentVersion</AttributeName>
<Path>SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\CurrentVersion</Path>
<PathType>1</PathType>
<AttributeType>1</AttributeType>
</RegistryAttributeDefinition>
</RegistryAttributeDefinitions>
<Frequency>14400</Frequency>
<ClassId>$MPElement[Name="Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win7.OperatingSystem"]$</ClassId>
<InstanceSettings>
<Settings>
<Setting>
<Name>$MPElement[Name="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/PrincipalName$</Name>
<Value>$Target/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/PrincipalName$</Value>
</Setting>
</Settings>
</InstanceSettings>
<Expression>
<SimpleExpression>
<ValueExpression>
<XPathQuery>Values/WindowsCurrentVersion</XPathQuery>
</ValueExpression>
<Operator>Equal</Operator>
<ValueExpression>
<Value>6.1</Value>
</ValueExpression>
</SimpleExpression>
</Expression>
</DataSource>
</Discovery>