{"id":2102,"date":"2014-01-30T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/01\/30\/powertip-use-powershell-to-retrieve-cim-methods\/"},"modified":"2014-01-30T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-retrieve-cim-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-retrieve-cim-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip:  Use PowerShell to Retrieve CIM Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to retrieve CIM methods.\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\">&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to dynamically obtain a list of CIM methods?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\">&nbsp;Use the following script:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Clear-Host;\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$ClassList = Get-CimClass;\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">foreach ($CimClass in $ClassList) {<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; foreach ($CimMethod in $CimClass.CimClassMethods) {<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $Method = [PSCustomObject]@{<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Class = $CimClass.CimClassName;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; MethodName = $CimMethod.Name;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Static = $false;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; };<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if ($CimMethod.Qualifiers.Name -contains &#8216;static&#8217;) {<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $Method.Static = $true;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; };<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $Method;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to retrieve CIM methods. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to dynamically obtain a list of CIM methods? &nbsp;Use the following script: Clear-Host; &nbsp; $ClassList = Get-CimClass; &nbsp; foreach ($CimClass in $ClassList) { &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; foreach ($CimMethod in $CimClass.CimClassMethods) { &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $Method = [PSCustomObject]@{ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Class = $CimClass.CimClassName; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to retrieve CIM methods. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to dynamically obtain a list of CIM methods? &nbsp;Use the following script: Clear-Host; &nbsp; $ClassList = Get-CimClass; &nbsp; foreach ($CimClass in $ClassList) { &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; foreach ($CimMethod in $CimClass.CimClassMethods) { &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $Method = [PSCustomObject]@{ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Class = $CimClass.CimClassName; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}