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Managing Windows Server with Window Management Instrumentation (WMI)
This chapter covers the following recipes:
- Exploring WMI Architecture in Windows
- Exploring WMI Namespaces
- Exploring WMI Classes
- Obtaining WMI Class Instances
- Using WMI Methods
- Using WMI Events
- Implementing Permanent WMI Eventing
Introduction
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a Windows component you use to help manage Windows systems. WMI is Microsoft’s proprietary implementation of the standards-based Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM). WBEM is an open standard promulgated by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) that aims to unify the management of distributed computing environments by using open standards-based internet technologies.
In addition ...
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