You are going to have to explain what WMI is because I don't know what it is even after having found something that explains what it is.Thank you for your response and direction to communication protocols but I was looking specifically for monitoring protocols such as WMI for Windows
I think what you are looking for as in ways to monitor system data etc. Grafana is one of the more popular ones and then you have plenty of other options that can do the same. And then you would have something like Logstash running on the systems that sends the data to a central server running Grafana but it will depend on the software you are using that receives the collected data.The frustrating part is how vague the question asked was. It makes it difficult to find answers and the prof. does not like elaborating