Listing WMI Providers
Understanding the namespace assists the network administrator with judiciously applying WMI scripting to his or her network duties. However, as mentioned earlier, to access information through WMI, you must have access to a WMI provider. After the provider is implemented, you can gain access to the information that is made available. Two Excel spreadsheets with all the providers and their associated classes from Windows XP and from Windows Server 2003 are in the Supplemental Material folder on the CD-ROM. If you want to know which classes are supported by the RouteProvider, you can click the Filter button and select RouteProvider. This is shown in Figure 5-2.
Figure 5-2. The WMIProvidersXP.xls spreadsheet lists classes supported ...
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