[Mono-dev] system class

[Will Weisser]

Not a provider, a client.  The Microsoft WMI API's have a DCOM interface
which you can invoke to execute WQL queries etc., but the actual data is
sent in a DCOM "custom" object which is essentially a stream of bytes in
an undocumented format.  So once you can connect via DCOM and parse the
custom format, you can manage Windows machines remotely from Linux.

If I were setting up a provider for Linux/Unix/whatever then I guess
OpenWBEM etc. would be an excellent option, or something like this:
http://www.excsoftware.com/.

Looking back it's not actually clear to me whether Matthijs is trying to
manage Windows from Linux, Linux from Windows, Linux from Linux or what
;P, so I apoligize if I muddled the issue.

	-W.W.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mono-devel-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Robert
Jordan
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:25 AM
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Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] system class

Hi Will,

> As I understand it the main difficulty in dealing with Microsoft's WMI
> implementation is that it runs over DCOM and not a standard protocol
> such as HTTP.
> 
> I wrote a C# DCOM stack and WMI implementation for my company, but
since
> they own it and not me I can't release it into the Mono class libs.

Just out of curiosity: did you write "just" a WMI provider for some
system? Or a full CMI manager?

Rob

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