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Introduction to WMI

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By making your driver a WMI provider, you can:

  • Make custom data available to WMI consumers.

  • Permit WMI consumers to configure a device through a standard interface rather than a custom control panel application.

  • Notify WMI consumers of driver-defined events without requiring the consumer to poll or send IRPs.

  • Reduce driver overhead by collecting and sending only requested data to a single destination.

  • Annotate data and event blocks with descriptive driver-defined class names and optional descriptions that WMI clients can then enumerate and display to users.