BLOG: WMI - Windows Management Instrumentation

You could easily management other computer’s settings thru WMI.

For example, you could easily find out the Events, Remote batch file execution, change the file NTFS setting using “”

Win32_NTEventLogFile

Win32_NTLogEvent

Tools

--+ C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WBEM\WBEMTEST.EXE

--+ WMI CIM Studio (Downloadable from Microsoft).

Jawin is a great tool to bridge java and WMI and any other windows native dlls.

WMI query is like the SQL query but much simpler than limited functionalities.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/wql_sql_for_wmi.asp

WMI Reference

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/wmi_reference.asp

Tony