Appendix A. WMI Event SDK Tools
Chapters 7, 8 and 12 covered subscribing and publishing WMI events. The aim of this appendix is to show how you can refine or test your event queries for an administrative script or an application development project. The WMI SDK comes with a number of tools that include CIM Studio, WMI Event Registration, WMI Event Viewer, and WMI Object Browser. CIM Studio is covered in Chapter 4. In this appendix, we shall focus on the WMI Event Registration and WMI Event Viewer tools.
Chapter 7 covered the three different types of events—intrinsic, extrinsic, and timer instructions—in detail. The WMI event tools allow you to set up event consumers to receive any WMI event. The main benefit of the event tools is that they allow ...
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