Getting all the juicy stuff from windows box with python and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is easy.

First, get the python library at http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html

Install it and we're ready to go. But first, install win32 python support.

WMI reference can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/win32_classes.asp

My plans are to try and do an Asset management of some sort. I was thinking of using Zope as the backend, and do some sort of simple agent in python.

The agent will scan the network, look for windows boxes, get the information, and store it in zope.

Seems easy enough :P. Implimentation is another matter though.

We'll see how this goes.