Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

Connecting to a Remote Machine

Accessing WMI objects on a remote machine, executing queries, and retrieving collections can be accomplished in exactly the same way as they are done locally. First you get a reference to a SWbemServices object on the remote machine, and then you use that SWbemServices object to service all further WMI requests. Performing the first step merely involves a call to GetObject() with a slightly extended moniker string; performing all further steps is absolutely identical to performing them locally.

So far in this book, we have been finding SWbemServices objects by passing the word "winMgmts:" as a moniker string to GetObject(). As we have already noted, this string is actually a shorthand notation for “the SWbemServices ...