How does IBM Director utilize WMI? What data can it pull from the client?
• A: As part of the standard install of Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Millenium, WMI will pick up a great deal of information about IBM PCs. It reports details about the operating system, logical and physical drives, multimedia, network configuration, NT Event Log, etc. WMI also collects all of the information surfaced by the IBM System BIOS in the SMBIOS tables including processor family/speed, memory sockets, system slots, installed memory modules, ports, model/serial number, etc. All of this information is surfaced according to the CIM standard. In addition to the standard WMI data reported, IBM Director instruments additional IBM data and events into WMI, including asset information (AssetID), environmental monitoring (temperature, voltage, fans, chassis intrusion alerts), predictive drive failures, Alert on LAN, Alert Standard Format, SNMP configuration, etc. IBM Director also maps the WMI data to DMI and SNMP to support other common industry standards in systems
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