Appendix F. WMI Reference
The Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) facilities in Windows offer thousands of classes that provide information of interest to administrators. Table F-1 lists the categories and subcategories covered by WMI, and can be used to get a general idea of the scope of WMI classes. Table F-2 provides a selected subset of the most useful WMI classes. For more information about a category, search the official WMI documentation at http://msdn.microsoft.com
Category | Subcategory |
Computer System Hardware | Cooling device, input device, mass storage, motherboard, controller and port, networking device, power, printing, telephony, video, and monitor. |
operating system | COM, desktop, drivers, filesystem, job objects, memory and page files, multimedia audio/visual, networking, operating system events, operating system settings, processes, registry, scheduler jobs, security, services, shares, Start menu, storage, users, Windows NT event log, Windows product activation. |
WMI Service Management | WMI configuration, WMI management. |
General | Installed applications, Performance counter, security descriptor. |
Class | Description |
| Represents a baseboard, which is also known as a motherboard or system board |
| Represents the attributes of the computer system’s basic input/output services (BIOS) that are installed on a computer. |
| Represents the boot configuration of a Windows system. ... |
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