WBEM, CIM, WMI

I became interested in the WBEM API and I realized that WMI was the native implementation on Windows…

• http://www.wilsonmar.com/1wmiwbem.htm
• http://beaconserver.m6bone.pl/wbem/standards.html
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms735120.aspxhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394582.aspx
• http://www.dmtf.org/standards/wbem/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web-Based_Enterprise_Management

The open APIs:

• http://www.openwbem.org/
• http://www.openpegasus.org/
• http://sblim.wiki.sourceforge.net/

HP-UX integrates WBEM natively since 11i!

It’s pretty cool for instrumenting metrics!

The protocol looks like soap but lighter…