CD/DVD media in drive

Content Authoring
1

Morning/Afternoon Folks,

I have a requirement to discover if a CD/DVD disk (not just a drive present) is loaded on a machine.

Is there any method of using BigFix to query a PC and create for example an automatic group or a fixlet listing the PC’s with media loaded into these drives?

I tried searching and googling and unfortunately nothing is returned - any help would be great

T.I.A
Chris

2

I don’t have a CD/DVD drive in my workstation, so I can’t progress this far, but I know the WMI class Win32_CDROMDrive has a property (MediaLoaded) that reports true if there is a CD loaded.

3

Thanks for your reply, and that is certainly a great help, I’m not really much of a content author (yet) how would I use that to return the value best?

Thanks again
Chris

4

How about something like

Q: string values of selects “MediaLoaded from Win32_CDROMDrive” of wmi
A: False
T: 27.560 ms
I: plural string

5

thanks for your fast reply, and thanks for the solution it works like a charm.

thanks so much for your help.

Chris