What is WMI? Can it help me?
Windows Management Code (Windows Management Instrument is a core Windows management technology; users can manage local and remote computers using WMI. WMI provides a continuous approach to day-to-day management through programming and scripting languages. For example, users can:
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Start a process on the remote computing machine.
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Set a process running at a specific date and time.
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Remotely start the computer.
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Get the list of installed programs for local or remote computers.
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Query the Windows event log of local or remote computers.
"Instrument" in WMI specifically refers to information about the internal state of the computer, which is very similar to the status information of the car dashboard and the display engine is very similar. WMI models the disk, process, and other Windows system objects, enabling the "Indicator". These computer system objects use classes to create models such as Win32_LogicalDisk or Win32_Process; if you expect, Win32_LogicalDisk class is used to build a model of logical disk installed on your computer, and the Win32_Process class is used to establish any process that is running on your computer. These classes are based on a scalable architecture called CommON Information Model (CIM). The CIM architecture is an open standard (http://www.dmtf.org) of the Distributed Management Task Force.
WMI features include event trigger, remote call, query, view, schema user extension, indication, etc.
To learn more about WMI, visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp and search for keyword "About WMI".
