How to – identify populated subnets in your StifleR environment

The ROOT/StifleR WMI Namespace has all the information you need to delve into your StifleR environment. WMI queries allow you to pull out this data.

Applies to

StifleR Server

Information

In this simple example we simply check if historical BITS activity exists for Subnets through WMI as follows:

gwmi -namespace root\StifleR -Query "Select * from Subnets where BITSSourceHistory > 0" | select SubnetID

This will provide you with a list of subnets on which clients have downloaded content using BITS and have therefore been populated with clients at some time.

TIP: A quick glance at the various properties available in the Subnets Instances should give you a good idea about how you can adapt this query for yourself in order to extract some very useful information.