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What is WMI and what can it do for me?

Windows Management Instrumentation is a core windows management technology. You can use WMI to manage local and remote computers. WMI provides a continuous and consistent approach for daily management through programming and scripting languages. For example, you can:

•	Start a process on a remote computer.
•	Set a process that runs on a specific date and time.
•	Start the computer remotely.
•	Obtain the list of installed programs on the local or remote computer.
•	Query Windows event logs of local or remote computers.

In WMI, "Instrumentation" means that WMI can obtain information about the computer's internal status, which is very similar to the status information obtained from the car dashboard and displayed on the engine. WMI models disks, processes, and other Windows system objects to implement the "indication" function. These Computer System Objects use classes to create models, suchWin32_logicaldiskOrWin32_processAs expected, the win32_logicaldisk class is used to create a model for a Logical Disk installed on a computer. The win32_process class is used to create a model for any process running on a computer. These classes are based on a scalable architecture named Common Information Model (CIM. CIM architecture is a public standard (Http://www.dmtf.org).

WMI features include event triggering, remote calling, querying, viewing, architecture user scaling, and instructions.

For more information about WMI, visitHttp://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.aspSearch for the keyword "about WMI ".