.NET Framework and Windows Management Instrumentation
Alexander Golomshtok · Apress eBooks · 2003
Over the last two decades, the remarkable evolution of the computer and networking technologies has changed our perception of computing forever. The days of monolithic mainframe installations and running operating systems, utilities, and applications from a single vendor are long gone, and simple, straightforward system architectures were forgotten long ago. The rapidly growing popularity of the distributed computing model has turned the vast majority of computing infrastructures into an extremely complex mix of dissimilar hardware devices that are interconnected by spiderwebs of local and wide area networks and are running software from thousands of different vendors. Besides elevating the complexity of the computer installations to a brand new level, this overwhelming technological progress has materialized the most horrible nightmares for many system administrators by making computer and network management painfully challenging.