Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation Scripting
- Presents overviews of the Common Information Model (CIM) and the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) architecture. Includes an in-depth discussion on the WMI scripting API and sample scripts through WSH. Article at the MSDN.
- http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms811556.aspx

Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation and Simple Network Management Protocol
- Article in MSDN
- http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms811540.aspx

Windows Management Instrumentation and the Common Information Model
- Article in MSDN
- http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms811552.aspx

developerWorks: Java technology : Management Application Programming: Introduction to WBEM and the CIM
- Paul Monday looks at the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) initiative.
- http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-wbem/index.html?dwzone=java

Windows Management Instrumentation
- Tim Huckaby introduces to the Windows Management instrumentation (WMI).
- http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/9100/9100.html

Inside Windows Management Interface
- WMI implements Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) technology to offer an extensible data-collection and management facility that lets you manage local and remote systems composed of arbitrary components. Article for Windows2000 Magazine by Mark Russi
- http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/7937/7937.html

What is WBEM?
- In 1996, BMC Software, Cisco Systems, Compaq Computer, Intel, and Microsoft sponsored the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) initiative, an effort to provide a unifying mechanism for describing and sharing management information. Article by Greg Todd.
- http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/3568/3568.html

An Introduction to WMI
- Tim Huckaby introduces to the Windows Management Instrumentation and shows how you can use it with Windows Script Host to execute process on remote Web servers.
- http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/15598/15598.html

Techweb Today - Solaris To Support WBEM Spec
- An Article by Jeffrey Schwartz published in InternetWeek.
- http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990608S0018

TechWeb - News: Enterprise Management Gets Web Standards
- Industry body finalizes specification for open enterprise management data exchange.
- http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990907S0017

Industry Leaders Form Group to Promote Open Source Enterprise Management Environment
- Participants in the WBEMsource initiative include The Open Group, Sun Microsystems, Caldera International, the Storage Networking Industry Association , and the b4wbem project. Press Release at snia.org.
- http://www.opengroup.org/press/6jun01.htm

Managing Windows with WMI
- Article in MSDN
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwmi/html/mngwmi.asp

SAN management using CIM and WBEM
- By Steve Jerman and John Crandall. Two standards may alleviate management headaches for both end users and management software developers.
- http://is.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=Articles&Subsection=Display&ARTICLE_ID=146706

WBEM - Conference
- An Introduction to WBEM/WMI. Online Presentations are available.
- http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/driver/wmi/default.asp

Snia Offers Open Source Object Manager for Enterprise Management
- The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has made available an open source Common-Information-Model (CIM) Object Manager. An Online-Article at java.sun.com.
- http://industry.java.sun.com/javanews/stories/story2/0,1072,24010,00.html

developerWorks: Java technology : Management Application Programming: Building management applications with Jiro and WBEM
- In this conclusion to his three-part series on building management applications, Paul Monday shows how to combine and leverage the best parts of Jiro technology and the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) initiative.
- http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-wbemjiro/index.html?dwzone=java

WBEM and JMAPI on the rise - SunWorld - November 1996
- WBEM and JMAPI on the rise -- SunWorld, November 1996
- http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonline/swol-11-1996/swol-11-connectivity.html

Understanding WBEM and JMAPI
- Guidelines to help vendors realize the promise of Web technology in net management tools. By Theo Forbath Network World, 5/5/97
- http://www.nwfusion.com/netresources/0505web5.html

WBEM: The Heart Of SMS
- Article in InformationWeek Online at May 11, 1998 WBEM: The Heart Of SMS By Richard Adhikari
- http://www.informationweek.com/681/81iusm3.htm

XML: Sun Solaris Supports WBEM
- Sun to Implement Web-Based Enterprise Management Standards in Solaris Operating Environment Industry Leaders Applaud Sun's Embrace of Emerging WBEM Standards PALO ALTO, California. June 08, 1999.
- http://xml.coverpages.org/sunWBEM19990608.html

WBEM/CIM and SNMP - what each has to offer
- From software to services - making management work By Barb Goldworm Network World Fusion Focus on Network/Systems Management
- http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/nsm/0920nm2.html

Sun Microsystems Makes Major Code Contribution to WBEMsource Initiative
- Article at PRNewswire.com about Sun and its WBEM strategy.
- http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-06-2001/0001508635&EDATE=