Intel® PRO Network Adapters WMI and CDM Providers User's Guide

Welcome to the Intel® PRO Network Adapters WMI and CDM Providers User's Guide. This document describes the external view of the Intel® PRO Network Adapters WMI and CDM Providers. The Windows Management Interface (WMI) Provider is a network configuration block of Network Configuration Services (NCS), which is a means of deploying and managing all Intel end-station networking technologies using industry standard methods. The Intel® PRO Common Diagnostic Model (CDM) Provider is an upper interface API that is compliant with the CIM 2.5 and WMI standards. On the lower interface, the CDM Provider implements a client interface into lower layers of the PROSet software stack. Because of this, all PROSet mechanisms for data integrity are maintained.

The WMI and CDM Providers are sets of software components that implements the Intel WMI network classes. These classes are based on the Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF) CIM Schema version 2.5.

This document does not repeat information contained in the Managed Object Format (MOF) files provided with this product (e.g., details of the meanings of individual attributes can be found in the MOF attribute descriptions).

This document describes how a WMI application such as Intel® PROSet uses classes to configure a system's network and how a how a WMI application uses classes to test an Intel network interface card. Readers should be familiar with WMI APIs and the WMI SDK (available from http://www.microsoft.com/).

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