Chapter 4. Remote Administration
As you have encountered it so far, WMI represents a new, unified way of modeling the components of a computer system. Despite this ability, from the perspective of the system administrator, WMI does not help accomplish anything that could not be handled equally well with conventional tools. The most exciting feature of WMI, however, is one that you have yet to encounter—namely, the ability to perform any function remotely just as easily as on a local machine! It is perhaps this one feature that makes WMI truly powerful as a system administration tool. This chapter introduces WMI’s facilities for remote administration and presents examples of tasks that make use of them.
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