Developing WMI Solutions: A Guide to Windows Management Instrumentation

Chapter 3. Windows Management Instrumentation

As we discovered in Chapter 2, both SNMP and DMI provide adequate solutions for their particular management domains. They provide event notification, dynamic and static management information retrieval, and define a logically related store for holding management information. They provide some degree of control over their managed objects and have security mechanisms in place to prevent accidental misuse or abuse.

In any enterprise environment, both DMI and SNMP typically coexist and provide management information for their particular domains. As the coexistence of the two frameworks became more commonplace in the enterprise, the DMTF made provisions for integrating them, and defined a mapping for DMI ...