The IWbemServices interface is used by clients and providers to access WMI services. The interface is implemented by WMI and WMI providers, and is the primary WMI interface.

    IWbemClassObject *pObj = NULL;

    //The pWbemSvc pointer is of type IWbemServices*
    pWbemSvc->GetObject(L"path", 0, 0, &pObj, 0);

Members

The IWbemServices interface inherits from the IUnknown interface. IWbemServices also has these types of members:

• Methods

Methods

The IWbemServices interface has these methods.

Remarks

Providers that implement the IWbemServices interface must follow the documented semantics of each method that they implement; and providers must support the specified error return codes. WMI implements all of the methods, and typically, each provider implements a small subset of the available functionality on the interface. Providers must return WBEM_E_PROVIDER_NOT_CAPABLE for any method that they do not implement.

All outbound interface pointers from any IWbemServices method should be initialized to NULL before calling the interface method. For example, calls to the IWbemServices::GetObject method return an IWbemClassObject interface pointer that should be pre-initialized to NULL before the IWbemServices::GetObject method call.

Examples

For multiple C++ examples that use IWbemServices, see the WMI C++ Application Examples section.

The following code example shows how a provider can get an IWbemServices pointer. The code requires the following #include statements and references to compile.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
#include <wbemidl.h>
#pragma comment(lib, "wbemuuid.lib")

IWbemLocator *pIWbemLocator = NULL;

HRESULT hRes = CoCreateInstance (
            CLSID_WbemAdministrativeLocator,
            NULL ,
            CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER | CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER , 
            IID_IUnknown ,
            ( void ** ) &pIWbemLocator
            ) ;

IWbemServices *pWbemServices = NULL;

if (SUCCEEDED(hRes))
{
    hRes = pIWbemLocator->ConnectServer(
                L"root\\CIMV2",  // Namespace
                NULL,          // Userid
                NULL,           // PW
                NULL,           // Locale
                0,              // flags
                NULL,           // Authority
                NULL,           // Context
                &pWbemServices
                );

pIWbemLocator->Release(); // Free memory resources.

// Use pWbemServices

}

// Clean up
pWbemServices->Release();

Requirements

See also

COM API for WMI

Creating WMI Providers

Manipulating Class and Instance Information

Supplying Data to WMI by Writing a Provider