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WMI Providers

The providers in Table C-2 can request information from and send instructions to WMI objects.

Table C-2. WMI providers

Provider

Description

Active Directory provider

The Active Directory provider maps Microsoft Active Directory directory service objects to WMI. By accessing the \Root\Directory\LDAP namespace in WMI, the Active Directory provider supplies WMI with access to information contained in Active Directory.

Cooked Counter provider

High-performance provider that is the preferred source of cooked (calculated) data. Cooked data is the same data displayed in the System Monitor. WMI supplies cooked classes such as Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_Cache, which enable applications to obtain cooked data for performance objects such as the cache.

DFS provider

Supplies Distributed File System (DFS) functions that logically group shares on multiple servers and link them transparently to a tree-like structure in a single namespace.

Disk Quota provider

Enables administrators to control the amount of data that each user stores on a Microsoft Windows NT File System (NTFS) volume.

Event Log provider

Provides access to data from the event log service to notifications of events.

IP Route provider

Supplies network routing information.

Job Object provider

Provides access to data on named kernel job objects.

Performance Counter provider

High-performance provider that is the preferred source of raw performance data. WMI supplies raw classes such as Win32_PerfRawData_PerfOS_Cache, which enable applications to obtain raw performance data for performance objects such as the cache.

Performance Monitoring provider

Provider for cooked performance data.

Ping provider

Supplies WMI access to the status information provided by the standard Ping command.

Policy provider

Provides extensions to Group Policy and permits refinements in the application of policy.

Power Management Event provider

Supplies information to the Win32_PowerManagementEvent class to describe power management events that result from power state changes.

Security provider

Retrieves or changes security settings that control ownership, auditing, and access rights.

Session provider

Manages network sessions and connections.

SNMP provider

Maps Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) objects defined in Management Information Base (MIB) schema objects to WMI Common Information Model (CIM) classes. This provider is not preinstalled.

System Registry provider

Enables management applications to retrieve and modify data in the system registry and receive notifications when changes occur. This provider is not preinstalled.

Terminal Services provider

WMI classes that you can use for consistent server administration in a Terminal Services environment.

Trustmon provider

Provides access information about domain trusts.

View provider

Creates new instances and methods based on instances of other classes.

WDM provider

Provides access to the classes, instances, methods, and events of hardware drivers that conform to the Windows Driver Model (WDM).

Win32 provider

Provides access to and updates data from Windows systems such as the current settings of environment variables and the attributes of a logical disk.

Windows Installer provider

Provides access to information collected from Windows Installercompliant applications, and it makes Windows Installer procedures available remotely. On Windows Server 2003 this provider is not preinstalled.

Windows Product Activation provider

Supports Windows Product Activation (WPA) administration by using WMI interfaces, and it provides consistent server administration.



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