Developing WMI Solutions: A Guide to Windows Management Instrumentation

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This book helps developers and system administrators understand Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). WMI is a technology built into Windows that enables organizations to manage servers and user PCs connected to their networks. Systems management is becoming much more important as organizational networks become more complex. Systems management is not necessarily a new concept as existing protocols like Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Desktop Management Interface (DMI) have been around for a while. What is new is that it's been traditionally difficult to envisage a unified picture of the whole system. Understanding the relationships between hardware and software in an organization's network is equally important. The SNMP world took systems management only as far as the hardware, such as routers. The DMI world took systems management only as far as the desktop. This led to the definition of Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM), a protocol/schema, by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). Microsoft adopted WBEM and WMI was born. WMI is an implementation of the WBEM standard that is consistent with Microsoft's Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) initiative. WMI brings the power of managing a Windows network to unprecedented levels. http://rapidshare.com/files/51342387/0201616130.zip