Table C-2. WMI providers
Provider | Description |
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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. |