WMI NIC Provider

# Intel® PRO Network Adapters WMI Provider

- Overview

- System Requirements

- Installation

- Supported Standards

- Known Issues

## Overview

The Intel® PRO Network Adapters WMI Provider enables WMI-based management applications such as PROSet 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 For Windows 2000, XP and Windows Server 2003 this is a newer version of the provider, which supports a newer schema with more advanced features.

Windows Management Instrumentation (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 (NCS) WMI Providers. This guide is located in \APPS\WMI\DOCS. Navigate to this directory and double-click index.htm. You should read this document in conjunction with the MOF files also found in \APPS\WMI. The technical reference paper describes the external view of NCS 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 PRO/1000 adapter and related driver software

- Windows 2000, XP or Windows Server 2003

The Intel® PRO Network Adapters WMI Provider supports all Intel PRO/100 and PRO/1000 adapters.

## Installation

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

Intel® PROSet Typical Setup Type registers the Intel® PRO Network Adapters WMI Provider into the root\IntelNCS namespace. To register Intel® PRO Network Adapters WMI Provider into the Microsoft standard root\cimv2 namespace use Custom Setup Type and choose WMI CIMv2 Support.

## Supported Standards

The Intel® PRO Network Adapters WMI Provider supports the standards based CIM 2.5 specification.

## Known Issues

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

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