Chapter 19. Windows Management Instrumentation from ASP.NET
In this chapter
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is the recommended mechanism for managing your Windows-based operating systems. Microsoft has provided a comprehensive infrastructure that enables you to instrument your servers and applications. It is all built on the WMI SDK, and the .NET framework comes with base class wrappers to make it easy.
WMI gives you a consistent, extensible, and discoverable schema with which you can instrument your servers and applications. You can gain uniform access to dispersed data sources regardless of their location. And WMI is based on industry standards, so this ...
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