System.Management.Instrumentation Namespace

Provides the classes necessary for instrumenting applications for management and exposing their management information and events through WMI to potential consumers. Consumers such as Microsoft Application Center or Microsoft Operations Manager can then manage your application easily, and monitoring and configuring of your application is available for administrator scripts or other applications, both managed as well as unmanaged. Instrumentation of your application is easy to achieve using the InstrumentationClass custom attribute on classes you wish to expose, or using the provided BaseEvent and Instance base classes and the Instrumentation helper class.

Classes

BaseEvent	Represents classes derived from BaseEvent that are known to be management event classes. These derived classes inherit an implementation of IEvent that allows events to be fired through the Fire() method. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
DefaultManagementInstaller	Installs an instrumented assembly. To use this default project installer, simply derive a class from DefaultManagementInstaller inside the assembly. No methods need to be overridden. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
DefaultManagementProjectInstaller	Installs an instrumented assembly. To use this default project installer, derive a class from DefaultManagementProjectInstaller inside the assembly. No methods need to be overridden. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
IgnoreMemberAttribute	Causes the associated member of an instrumented class to be ignored by management instrumentation. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
Instance	Represents derived classes known to be management instrumentation instance classes. These derived classes inherit an implementation of IInstance that allows instances to be published through the Published property. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
InstanceNotFoundException	The exception thrown to indicate that no instances are returned by a provider. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
Instrumentation	Provides helper functions for exposing events and data for management. There is a single instance of this class per application domain. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
InstrumentationBaseException	Represents the base provider-related exception. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
InstrumentationClassAttribute	Specifies that a class provides event or instance instrumentation. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
InstrumentationException	Represents a provider-related exception. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
InstrumentationManager	Provides methods that manage the lifetime and the model used for decoupled providers. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
InstrumentedAttribute	Specifies that this assembly provides management instrumentation. This attribute should appear one time per assembly. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
ManagedCommonProvider	The class is used internally by the WMI.NET Provider Extensions infrastructure. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
ManagedNameAttribute	Allows an instrumented class, or member of an instrumented class, to present an alternate name through management instrumentation. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
ManagementBindAttribute	The ManagementBind attribute indicates that a method is used to return the instance of a WMI class associated with a specific key value. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
ManagementCommitAttribute	The ManagementCommit attribute marks a method that is called when it is necessary to update a set of read-write properties in one, atomic operation. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
ManagementConfigurationAttribute	The ManagementConfiguration attribute indicates that a property or field represents a read-write WMI property. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
ManagementCreateAttribute	The ManagementCreateAttribute is used to indicate that a method creates a new instance of a managed entity. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
ManagementEntityAttribute	The ManagementEntity attribute indicates that a class provides management information exposed through a WMI provider. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
ManagementEnumeratorAttribute	The ManagementEnumerator attribute marks a method that returns all the instances of a WMI class. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
ManagementInstaller	Installs instrumented assemblies. Include an instance of this installer class in the project installer for an assembly that includes instrumentation. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
ManagementKeyAttribute	The ManagementKey attribute identifies the key properties of a WMI class. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
ManagementMemberAttribute	This class is used by the WMI.NET Provider Extensions framework. It is the base class for all the management attributes that can be applied to members. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
ManagementNameAttribute	The ManagementName attribute is used to override names exposed through a WMI class. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
ManagementNewInstanceAttribute	The base class for management attributes that have only run-time functionality and no schema representation. The management attribute classes ManagementBindAttribute, ManagementCreateAttribute and ManagementEnumeratorAttribute are all derived from this class. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
ManagementProbeAttribute	The ManagementProbe attribute indicates that a property or field represents a read-only WMI property. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
ManagementQualifierAttribute	The ManagementQualifier attribute contains additional WMI provider-related information about an associated WMI class, instance, property, field or method. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
ManagementReferenceAttribute	The ManagementReferenceAttribute marks a class member, property or method parameter as a reference to another management object or class. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
ManagementRemoveAttribute	The ManagementRemoveAttribute is used to indicate that a method cleans up an instance of a managed entity. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
ManagementTaskAttribute	The ManagementTask attribute indicates that the target method implements a WMI method. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
WmiConfigurationAttribute	The WmiConfiguration attribute indicates that an assembly contains code that implements a WMI provider by using the WMI.NET Provider Extensions model. The attribute accepts parameters that establish the high-level configuration of the implemented WMI provider. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
WmiProviderInstallationException	Represents an exception to throw when WMI provider installation fails. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.

Interfaces

IEvent

Specifies a source of a management instrumentation event. Objects that implement this interface are known to be sources of management instrumentation events. Classes that do not derive from BaseEvent should implement this interface instead. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.

IInstance

Specifies a source of a management instrumentation instance. Objects that implement this interface are known to be sources of management instrumentation instances. Classes that do not derive from Instance should implement this interface instead. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.

Enums

InstrumentationType	Specifies the type of instrumentation provided by a class. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
ManagementConfigurationType	Represents the possible commit behaviors of a read/write property. It is used as the value of a parameter of the ManagementConfigurationAttribute attribute. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
ManagementHostingModel	Defines values that specify the hosting model for the provider. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.
ManagementQualifierFlavors	Qualifier flavors that can be used with WMI provider extensions. Note: the WMI .NET libraries are now considered in final state, and no further development, enhancements, or updates will be available for non-security related issues affecting these libraries. The MI APIs should be used for all new development.