While setting up an Observium Server on a Raspberry Pi (Surprise, Surprise) I noticed that the documentation allowed for the capture of CPU, RAM and MSSQL data via WMIC but lacked a method to get WMIC enabled on Raspbian. No luck with finding a WMIC package with apt-get, but a quick google search brought me to a github page with some code that got WMIC up and running with minimal hassle. I quickly a script using the following method and had WMI up and running in no time about 25 minutes. Here is how I did it.

1. Create the installwmic.sh by running the command “sudo pico installwmic.sh”, copy the following code, paste it, control-x to exit, save and exit. NOTE: I prefer pico as a text editor (Warning: die hard Linux nerds will call you a noob.), but you can also accomplish the same with VI, VIM, NANO, etc. You can learn more about text editors on the Raspberry Pi Homepage.
   
   #!/bin/bash # compiles WMIC for linux apt-get install autoconf cd /usr/src wget http://www.openvas.org/download/wmi/wmi-1.3.14.tar.bz2 bzip2 -cd wmi-1.3.14.tar.bz2 | tar xf - cd wmi-1.3.14/ make "CPP=gcc -E -ffreestanding" cp Samba/source/bin/wmic /usr/local/bin exit 0

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   #!/bin/bash   # compiles WMIC for linux   apt-get install autoconf   cd /usr/src wget http://www.openvas.org/download/wmi/wmi-1.3.14.tar.bz2 bzip2 -cd wmi-1.3.14.tar.bz2 | tar xf - cd wmi-1.3.14/ make "CPP=gcc -E -ffreestanding" cp Samba/source/bin/wmic /usr/local/bin   exit 0

2. Set proper permissions to the newly created script with the command “sudo chmod 755 ./installwmic.sh”
3. Run the the script with “sudo ./installwmic.sh” and wait…
4. Watch all the text flow through the terminal as the script works it’s magic.
5. Continue to wait.
6. Eventually it will finish and WMIC is installed for use in your other Raspberry Pi Projects!
7. Confirm by running the command “wmic” in the terminal and you should be greeted with the usage info!