Connecting to WMI
To use the Network Load Balancing Provider, your application establishes a connection to WMI and requests access to a namespace, often in the form of an object path such as "\\<computer name>\root\MicrosoftNLB". WMI creates a client-server connection between the computer system on which your application is running (the provider client) and the node that will load the provider and carry out provider operations (the provider node). The namespace you use determines how the provider node is selected. For more information, refer to the following sections: