Tests The Accessibility of WMI Counters
WMI stands for “Windows Management Instrumentation” and is the technology from Microsoft for monitoring and management of Windows based systems.
WMI works like a database and offers a variety of useful monitoring values of Computers running Microsoft Windows. Products like Paessler’s PRTG Network Monitor make use of the WMI functionality to monitor computers in network environments. WMI allows a process to read out data for many Windows’ configuration parameters as well as current system status values. Access can take place locally or remotely via a network connection. WMI is based on COM and DCOM and is integrated in Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and later.
As WMI access over a network is not quite trivial, the Paessler WMI Tester is a tool for testing the accessibility of WMI in a quick and easy-to-use way.
