# 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.

Network Configuration Services version 2 (NCS2) is a solution for deploying and managing all Intel end-station networking technologies using industry standard methods. This document describes the external view of the Intel PRO Network Adapters WMI Provider (referred to throughout this document as "NCS2 WMI Provider"). The NCS2 WMI Provider is a network configuration block of NCS2.

The NCS WMI Provider is a set of software components that implements the Intel WMI network classes. These classes are based on the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) CIM Schema version 2.6.

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 for Microsoft Device Manager uses classes to configure a system’s network. Readers should be familiar with WMI APIs and the WMI SDK (available from http://www.microsoft.com/).

## Related Documents

- CIM schema version 2.0, 2.2 published by Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). Available at http://www.dmtf.org.
- Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation (and other manageability information). Available at http://www.microsoft.com.
- Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) initiative by DMTF. Available at http://www.dmtf.org.
- WMI (Microsoft CIM implementation) SDK. Available at http://msdn.microsoft.com.

## Topics

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WMI

Features

Installed Files

Security

Namespace and Context

Localization

Error Reporting

Core Schema

Ethernet Adapter Schema

Adapter Setting Schema

Boot Agent Setting Schema

Team Schema

Team Setting Schema

VLAN Schema

VLAN Setting Schema

Diagnostic Classes

Getting the Current Configuration

Updating the Configuration

Summary of CIM Classes

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