0 The 'Apple Remote Desktop' (ARD) uses WBEM, upon which WMI is built. According to Apple's website, ARD can support system management and reporting capabilities, which is what WMI does for Windows hosts. ARD is based on OpenWBEM.

It has cropped up from time to time that we need to retrieve information, in this example, the MAC address from remotely located workstations.

While, as it goes in the world of system administration, many ways to skin such a cat, I am going to leverage both the power and versatility of Powershell combined with the vast information warehouse that is WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation).

If your remote computer is a basic configuration then we can start of something simple

In the above example, we are using the gwmi cmdlet (alias of Get-WMIObject and are interchangeable), pointing to a remote workstation with -ComputerName switch, filtered out information requested with the -Class switch, wrapping it all in brackets so we can retrieve just the returned Powershell MACAddress property.

Hopefully you will be returned a MAC Address.

1. I have a C application that gets detailed system information (processor type, available disk space, other hardware profile info) on Windows using WMI. I want to perform the same type of operations on OSX 10.5+. What is the equivalent API or interface for MacOS? Links to API documentation or tutorials are very welcome.
2. WMIC or Windows Management Interface Command is a simple command line tool used to issue WMI commands. WMI command generally used to query all of the system related information like Computer Name, BIOS Serial Number, Mac Address etc. WMIC provides two type of usage.
3. Using Powershell and WMI to get the MAC address of Remote workstation It has cropped up from time to time that we need to retrieve information, in this example, the MAC address from remotely located workstations.

However, you may find that if the device has multiple network adapters (such as teredo tunnelling for IPv6, hypervisor bridges, VPN TAPs) you are getting more noise than needed:

Never fear though, we have the technology. If you know more information about the network adapter that you want the MAC address from, we can apply filtering to the original query to bring precious to our result.

If you know the IP address of the network adapter:

Or if you know the type of network adapter:

Wmi Equivalent For Mac High Sierra

There you have it. A quick little one liner that taps into the vast depth of information from the WMI database via Powershell power. It is certainly worth playing around with the properties that the above WMI query can provide in return as the information stored is vast and can lead to endless amounts of utility in your future Powershell magic.