WMI003-WMI学习笔记（三）——Windows Management Instrumentation（Windows管理工具）

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Windows Management Instrumentation

Purpose

目的

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is the infrastructure for management data and operations on Windows-based operating systems. You can write WMI scripts or applications to automate administrative tasks on remote computers but WMI also supplies management data to other parts of the operating system and products, for example System Center Operations Manager, formerly Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), or Windows Remote Management (WinRM).

WMI（Windows管理基础类库）是用于管理基于Windows的操作系统的数据和操作的工具。

使用WMI脚本和应用程序，可以自动管理远程计算机上的任务。

除此之外，WMI还支持管理其他内容，例如操作系统的部件和Windows的其他产品上的数据。

Where applicable

适用于。。。

WMI can be used in all Windows-based applications, and is most useful in enterprise applications and administrative scripts.

System administrators can find information about using WMI at the TechNet ScriptCenter, and in various books about WMI. For more information, see Further Information.

WMI适用于所有的基于Windows的应用程序，在企业应用和管理脚本上非常有用。

Developer audience

开发者

WMI is designed for programmers who use C/C++, the Microsoft Visual Basic application, or a scripting language that has an engine on Windows and handles Microsoft ActiveX objects. While some familiarity with COM programming is helpful, C++ developers who are writing applications can find good examples for getting started at Creating a WMI Application Using C++.

To develop managed code providers or applications in C# or Visual Basic .NET using the .NET Framework, see WMI in .NET Framework.

The WMI Software Developer Kit (SDK) is available as a download that includes documentation at the Download Center. The WMI Redistributable Components version 1.0 file, is required only for Windows 2000 and is available to download at the same location.

WMI functionality introduced in the Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 2 (SP2) operating system is also available to earlier operating systems by downloading the .NET Framework SDK, and the .NET Framework Redistributable. These can be obtained at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa731542.aspx.

WMI支持的语言有C/C++，VB，以及其他的任意的支持MS ActiveX对象的（脚本）语言。

对于熟悉COM编程的人来说，上手将会很容易。

开发C#或者VB.NET（使用.NET框架）的管理代码提供其或者应用程序，请参考 WMI in .NET Framework.

Run-time requirements

需要的运行时

For more information about which operating system is required to use a specific API element or WMI class, see the Requirements section of each topic in the WMI documentation.

If an expected component appears to be missing, see Operating System Availability of WMI Components.

In this section

Topic	Description
About WMI	General information about WMI.
Using WMI	Information about how to develop applications to use WMI, which includes information about tools.
WMI Reference	Documentation about the WMI classes, WMI C++ classes, WMI COM API, Scripting API, and other WMI reference material.