WMI Consumers

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Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Scripting Guide

WMI consumers are the final layer in the WMI infrastructure. A consumer can be a script, an enterprise management application, a Web-based application, or some other administrative tool that accesses and controls management information available through the WMI infrastructure.

WMI consumers do not have to be complicated. The following three-line script, which returns the amount of free disk space on drive C, is an example of a WMI consumer:

Set objSWbemServices = GetObject("winmgmts:")
Set objDisk = objSWbemServices.Get("Win32_LogicalDisk.DeviceID='C:'")
Wscript.Echo objDisk.FreeSpace

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  • Many management applications serve dual roles as both WMI consumer and WMI provider. Such is the case with several Microsoft management products, such as Application Center, Operations Manager, and Systems Management Server.