WMI: The Industry Picture
The need for system instrumentation and configuration is not unique to device drivers, Windows 2000, or Microsoft. The Open Software Foundation (OSF) includes a task group, the Desktop Management Taskforce (DMTF), that has published an initiative for unified system management compatible with Internet standards, Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM).
WBEM defines an interface for the purpose of unified management and instrumentation: the Common Information Model (CIM). CIM is designed to encapsulate and accommodate other industry initiatives such as the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and the Desktop Management Interface (DMI).
CIM is a very general-purpose way of describing properties, methods, and events ...
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