Administering Sections of HIS (WMI)
Host Integration Server is included with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) providers that grant administrative access to the following areas:
Rolling out, configuring, and restoring services
The SNA Provider WMI Programmer's Reference and SNA Trace Provider WMI Programmer's Reference providers expose information regarding the Setup and rollout procedures for Host Integration Server. You can use instances of classes such as MsSna_LinkService to set up and administer link services, and the classes derived from MsSna_Config to configure your system. For more information, see Configuring Host Integration Server with WMI.
Starting and stopping services and connections
The WmiSna provider exposes the MsSna_Server, MsSna_Service, and MsSna_Connection classes. These classes and their derived classes let you add an SNA service, start and stop services, pause services, and start and stop connections. For more information, see Controlling Services and Connections with WMI.
Health monitoring
The WmiSnaStatus provider exposes information regarding the SNA service status. WmiSnaStatus uses a variety of classes derived from MsSnaStatus_Event to describe changes in different parts of your system. For more information, see How to Monitor the Health of Host Integration Server with WMI.
Trace capturing
The WmiSnaTrace provider supports classes and instances derived from the MsHisTrace_Config class, which displays information regarding different configuration files. WmiSnaTrace also supports the MsHisTrace_Event, which describes an event that occurs whenever a trace is triggered. For more information, see How to Capture a Trace with WMI.
Additionally, Microsoft Windows includes several standard WMI providers, such as a registry provider, for accessing information from the system registry. Windows also supplies a Windows Event Log provider that enables applications to receive notifications of Windows and Host Integration Server events and to access the information stored in the Windows event log. Third-party vendors can create custom providers to interact with managed objects specific to their environment.