The Network Adapters Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Provider enables WMI-based management applications such as for Windows Device Manager to monitor and configure the status of PCI network adapters. Network Adapters WMI Provider uses WMI, a user-level instrumentation technology for the Microsoft Windows* platform.
WMI is a middleware layer that allows measurement and instrumentation information to be collected from kernel mode data providers. This information can then be provided to local or remote user-mode data consumers through the use of a common set of interfaces (Web-based Enterprise Management called WBEM). WMI is a data-independent pipeline between the data consumer and the data provider that makes no assumptions about the format of the data.
A guide is available on this distribution, which contains detailed information on the Network Adapters WMI Provider, also referred to as Network Configuration Services (NCS2) WMI Providers. This guide is located in \APPS\WMI\DOCS. The technical reference paper describes the external view of NCS2 WMI providers so WMI-based management applications could use it to manage the network configuration for the adapters.
Any 100, 1000 adapter, or 10GbE adapter
related driver software
a supported Microsoft* Windows* operating system. Please refer to the System Requirements page for a list of supported operating systems.
The Network Adapters WMI Provider supports all 100, 1000, and 10GbE adapters.
The Network Adapters WMI Provider are installed as part of for Windows Device Manager software installation. See the Installing for Windows Device Manager section for more information on how to install for Windows Device Manager.
for Windows Device Manager Typical Setup Type registers the Network Adapters WMI Provider into the root\NCS2 namespace.
The Network Adapters WMI Provider supports the standards based CIM 2.6 specification.
This Network Adapters WMI Provider cannot jointly operate with the DMI-SNMP instrumentation.
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