WMI provides for accessing lots of information. However, our system is set up so that users have read only access. In the documentation you will see examples of code for setting up "Providers". This is not an option for our users currently. Information that is already in the WMI or CIM databases is accessible as read only.

WMI information can be accessed in two different ways by our users. The users can access the information locally on the machines by adding it into their applications. IWbemLocator and IWbemServices are Interfaces for C and C++. SWbemLocator is for Scripting languages. Fortran cannot use COM or DCOM objects, yet.
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Users can elect to poll the servers while their job is running. This is done by using remote calls to access the computers. The following example uses the information provided by Cluster CoNTroller's ccusage to request information from the computers in use by a particular job.