<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Tim Golden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@timgolden.me.uk">mail@timgolden.me.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">Kevin Horn wrote:<br>
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On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Tim Golden <<a href="mailto:mail@timgolden.me.uk" target="_blank">mail@timgolden.me.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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The CIM_ classes represent the DMTF Common Information Model [1],<br>
the structure on which WMI is based. In principle other manufacturers<br>
could implement WMI -- or whatever they would want to call it -- but<br>
as far as I am aware, no-one has.<br>
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Somewhat tangential to the conversation, but WBEM/CIM is available for<br>
Linux, Mac OS X, some Unices, and Netware:<br>
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<a href="http://www.openwbem.org/" target="_blank">http://www.openwbem.org/</a><br>
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In case anyone is interested.<br>
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Interesting: is it widely used / known / supported, do you know?<br>
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[Absolutely no axe to grind: just interested as I've never seen<br>
it put forward when anyone asks "How do I ...?" on one of those<br>
platforms]<br>
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TJG<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Well, I don't really know from personal experience, I just recalled having found it a while back, I thought it might be useful for a project that never ended up happening. From the web page, it's maintained by a company called Quest Software, Novell is a contributor and apparently uses it in SUSE SLES 10, Apple Remote desktop is listed as using it.<br>
<br>Makes me think it's probably pretty solid, though as I said, I've never used it myself.<br><br>Kevin Horn<br></div></div><br>