Posted by: usmanahmad on: June 7, 2007
Please follow the link
http://www.dotnet-guide.com/windows-management-instrumentation.html
Windows Management
Instrumentation (WMI) is a component of the Windows Operating System that
is used to get information about your computer system or network. Using
Windows Management Instrumentation it is possible to create applications
that interact with your system and get the required information about
your system
The data that is retrieved by the WMI is stored using a model called
Common Information Model (CIM) which is a standard for storing information
The CIM has
three different levels of classes called the Core, Common and the Extended
classes. we can extend this model and can create our own classes using Managed Object Format (MOF). This is the most common method of creating new CIM Classes.
Details in above link.
Regards.