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Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
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Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

by Matthew M. Lavy, Ashley J. Meggitt
October 2001
Beginner to intermediate
432 pages
11h 42m
English
Sams
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Referencing Objects

WMI objects sit within a namespace and are bound by associations and class groups, but this structure is of no use to a system administrator without a mechanism for referring to objects and following associations. To pose the problem in a slightly different way, a management application or script that needs to interact with a WMI object must have some way of explaining its requirements to the Object Manager. The details of the mechanism used for communication between a management application or script and the Object Manager are partly dependent on the programming language and WMI interface being used. The various components of a typical object path are illustrated in Figure 1.3. We will see how to accomplish this through ...

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