Ping Provider

The Ping provider supplies WMI access to the status information provided by the standard ping command. The name of the __Win32Provider instance name is "WMIPingProvider".

Windows 2000:  The Ping provider is not available.

As an instance provider, the Ping provider implements the standard IWbemProviderInit interface and the following IWbemServices method:

• ExecQueryAsync

  Note that the address property cannot be specified as a range, but must be exact.

• GetObjectAsync

The Wmipicmp.mof file contains the Ping provider and registration classes. You can access the Ping provider classes only in the root\cimv2 namespace.

The Ping provider supports the following class:

• Win32_PingStatus

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WMI Providers

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Build date: 11/19/2012