WMI NIC Provider

# Intel® PRO Network Adapters WMI Provider

- Overview

- System Requirements

- Installation

- Supported Standards

- Known Issues

## Overview

The Intel® PRO Network Adapters Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Provider enables WMI-based management applications such as Intel® PROSet for Windows Device Manager to monitor and configure the status of PCI network adapters. Intel PRO Network Adapters WMI Provider uses WMI, a user-level instrumentation technology for the Microsoft Windows* platform. For Windows 2000, XP and Windows Server 2003 this is a newer version of the provider, which supports a newer schema with more advanced features.

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 Intel PRO Network Adapters WMI Provider, also referred to as Network Configuration Services (NCS2) WMI Providers. This guide is located in \APPS\WMI\DOCS. Navigate to this directory and double-click index.htm. 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 Intel adapters.

## System Requirements

- Any Intel® PRO/100 or Intel® PRO/1000 adapter, related driver software, and Microsoft* Windows* 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server* 2003

- Any Intel® PRO/10GbE adapter, related driver software, and Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003

The Intel PRO Network Adapters WMI Provider supports all Intel PRO/100, PRO/1000, and PRO/10GbE adapters.

## Installation

The Intel PRO Network Adapters WMI Provider are installed as part of Intel® PROSet for Windows Device Manager software installation. See the Installing Intel PROSet for Windows Device Manager section for more information on how to install Intel PROSet for Windows Device Manager.

Intel PROSet for Windows Device Manager Typical Setup Type registers the Intel PRO Network Adapters WMI Provider into the root\IntelNCS2 namespace.

## Supported Standards

The Intel PRO Network Adapters WMI Provider supports the standards based CIM 2.6 specification.

## Known Issues

This Intel PRO Network Adapters WMI Provider cannot jointly operate with the Intel® DMI-SNMP instrumentation.

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