Not really more comprehensive 🙂

You can try to use WMI for this - here some possible hints:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms180606(SQL.90).aspx

http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/database-administration/why-this-sql-server-dba-is-learning-powershell/

http://msmvps.com/blogs/athif/archive/2005/11/20/76035.aspx

Hope this helps or gives you some ideas...

Regards, Richard.