Getting WINS Server Statistics

Question

I know WINS is ancient. No need to remind me. For what it's worth, this effort is going toward a project to retire it from the environment altogether.

But before I can do that - I need to be able to scriptomatically or programmatically gather statistics from it.

See the screenshot below:

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See "Total querries," (lol at the misspelling) "Record found", etc.?

How do I get at those values? They're not in Perfmon, they're not in any WMI class I've found. I can't find any related COM objects. There are counters like "queries/sec," but I don't care about queries/sec. I want total queries. Just like in the screenshot above.

I'll P/Invoke Win32 if I have to... just... where do I get these metrics?

From my research, there's a JET database that WINS uses...there's a good place to start looking. — Nathan C, Jun 19 '13 at 17:03
Per http://support.microsoft.com/kb/168712 it looks like there's info in the registry and under `C:\Windows\system32\Wins` that might be useful. I didn't post an answer because I don't have WINS ;) — Nathan C, Jun 19 '13 at 17:06
Are you trying to find clients that may still be using wins? if so we just looked at the firewall logs. — tony roth, Jun 19 '13 at 19:45

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 19 '13 at 20:16

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Found what I was looking for with netsh wins server show statistics. I'll have to parse some output text, but at least I can script it.

WINS stats

edited Jun 19 '13 at 20:16

Wesley

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answered Jun 19 '13 at 19:55

Ryan Ries

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-1 for not explaining things. – tony roth Jun 19 '13 at 20:00
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@tonyroth What's there to explain? `netsh wins server show statistics` returns the statistics. – Wesley Jun 19 '13 at 20:15
It is beyond obvious what his solution was, and I can't actually think of a better way to explain it. – Falcon Momot Jun 19 '13 at 20:16
lol no screen shot for me! – tony roth Jun 19 '13 at 20:18
That would do it! – MDMarra Jun 19 '13 at 20:21
also the edit cleared things up... – tony roth Jun 19 '13 at 20:32

Getting WINS Server Statistics

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