The Intel® PRO Network Adapters 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 For Windows 2000, XP and Windows Server 2003 this is a newer version of the provider, which supports a newer schema with more advanced features.
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 (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.
Any Intel® PRO/100 or PRO/1000 adapter, related driver software, and Microsoft Windows 2000, XP or Windows Server 2003
Any Intel® PRO/10GbE adapter, related driver software, and Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003
The Intel® PRO Network Adapters WMI Provider supports all Intel PRO/100, PRO/1000, and PRO/10GbE adapters.
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.
The Intel® PRO Network Adapters WMI Provider supports the standards based CIM 2.6 specification.
This Intel PRO Network Adapters WMI Provider cannot jointly operate with the Intel® DMI-SNMP instrumentation.
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