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What is the WBEM?

Background: Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is an implementation of Distributed Management Task Force’s (DMTF) Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM).

WBEM is a set of open, industry-defined specifications that unify and extend the management of enterprise-computing environment.

The central part of WMI is the CIMOM (Common Interface Model Object Manager) which is an interface to the data container itself - the Common Information Model - better known as the CIM.

With ought WMI, services, drivers, and applications will return information as data or events into the CIM. This data can then be extracted and analyzed by system managers. This information will provide the managers with better ways to manage, troubleshoot and otherwie keep systems in the best condition. WEBMTEST.EXE is an example of a program to extract this information.

See Microsoft’s Tech net for more information about this subject.

As a result of continuously logging to the file CIM.REC causes extra I/O and defragmentation. It can be disabled in the registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE ]
EnableEvents = "0" (Default - "1")
Logging = "0" (Default - "1")
Logging Directory = "C:"
Working Directory = "C:"

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