WMI Structure
Having considered both the conceptual and technological issues surrounding WMI, we are now in a position to be able to look in more detail at its structure and the components that comprise it.
The WMI implementation consists of a vast number of objects, some of which are persistent and some of which are created on demand. Each of these kinds of objects refers to some aspect of the operating system, hardware or network. Depending on the underlying system to which they refer, objects may remain static over their lifetimes, or they may contain properties that change constantly. Many WMI objects refer to other objects that might or might not share a similar life span. Two aspects of WMI help management applications or scripts make ...
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