Tim Huckaby introduces to the Windows Management Instrumentation and shows how you can use it with Windows Script Host to execute process on remote Web servers.

Paul Monday looks at the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) initiative.

In this conclusion to his three-part series on building management applications, Paul Monday shows how to combine and leverage the best parts of Jiro technology and the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) initiative.

Participants in the WBEMsource initiative include The Open Group, Sun Microsystems, Caldera International, the Storage Networking Industry Association , and the b4wbem project. Press Release at snia.org.

WMI implements Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) technology to offer an extensible data-collection and management facility that lets you manage local and remote systems composed of arbitrary components. Article for Windows2000 Magazine by Mark Russinovich.

Article in MSDN

Article in MSDN

Presents overviews of the Common Information Model (CIM) and the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) architecture. Includes an in-depth discussion on the WMI scripting API and sample scripts through WSH. Article at the MSDN.

As a result of the Web-based Enterprise Management movement, XML is rapidly becoming a crucial technology for management application interoperability and presentation. Article in Networkmagazine.

By Steve Jerman and John Crandall. Two standards may alleviate management headaches for both end users and management software developers.

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has made available an open source Common-Information-Model (CIM) Object Manager. An Online-Article at java.sun.com.

Article at PRNewswire.com about Sun and its WBEM strategy.

An article in "Active Server Developer's Journal".

Industry body finalizes specification for open enterprise management data exchange.

An Article by Jeffrey Schwartz published in InternetWeek.

Guidelines to help vendors realize the promise of Web technology in net management tools. By Theo Forbath Network World, 5/5/97

An Introduction to WBEM/WMI. Online Presentations are available.

An Article by Tim Wilson published in InternetWeek.

WBEM and JMAPI on the rise -- SunWorld, November 1996

LAN Times Online (6/22/98) WBEM makes slow but steady progress: DMTF takes over development of Web-based management standard with promises of compliant tools by summer By Monica Snell

From software to services - making management work By Barb Goldworm Network World Fusion Focus on Network/Systems Management

Article in InformationWeek Online at May 11, 1998 WBEM: The Heart Of SMS By Richard Adhikari

In 1996, BMC Software, Cisco Systems, Compaq Computer, Intel, and Microsoft sponsored the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) initiative, an effort to provide a unifying mechanism for describing and sharing management information. Article by Greg Todd.

Tim Huckaby introduces to the Windows Management instrumentation (WMI).

Article in MSDN

Presents an overview of the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) technology, an implementation of the Web-based Enterprise Management (WBEM) initiative for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It also discusses the Common Information Model (CIM), and the architecture of the Windows Management Instrumentation technology.

Sun to Implement Web-Based Enterprise Management Standards in Solaris Operating Environment Industry Leaders Applaud Sun's Embrace of Emerging WBEM Standards PALO ALTO, California. June 08, 1999.