Users Guide

Dell Command | Monitor from version 9.0 has been modified to use an OID that is specific to client OID

(10909) for consoles to identify client systems.

For more information on SNMP, see Dell Command | Monitor SNMP Reference Guide at dell.com/

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Detecting advance format drives

Client systems are transitioning to Advanced Format (AF) drives for larger storage capacity and to address

the limitations of 512-byte sector hard drives (HDDs). The hard drives transitioning to 4KB sectors

maintain backward compatibility, while the current AF hard drive, known as 512e hard drive, match 512-

byte SATA and operate at 4KB. During the transition, you may encounter performance issues such as

partition mis-aligned drives in the client systems resulting in failure of sector-based encryption software

packages that handle 512e drives. Dell Command | Monitor allows you to determine if the hard drive on a

system is 4KB AF drive, which helps to prevent these issues.

Boot configurations

A client system can have one of two types of boot configuration:

• Legacy (BIOS)

• UEFI

In Dell Command | Monitor, the boot configuration (Legacy or UEFI) is modeled using the following

classes:

• DCIM_ElementSettingData

• DCIM_BootConfigSetting

• DCIM_OrderedComponent

• DCIM_BootSourceSetting

NOTE: The terms "Boot Configuration" and "Boot List Type" are used interchangeably and convey

the same meaning representing Legacy or UEFI.

DCIM_BootConfigSetting

An instance of DCIM_BootConfigSetting represents a boot configuration that is used during the boot

process. For example, on client systems, there are two types of boot configurations — Legacy and UEFI.

So, DCIM_BootConfigSetting has a maximum of two instances to represent, one each for Legacy and

UEFI.

You can determine if the DCIM_BootConfigSetting represents Legacy, using the following properties:

• InstanceID = "DCIM:BootConfigSetting:Next:1"

• ElementName = "Next Boot Configuration Setting : Boot List Type 1"

You can determine if the DCIM_BootConfigSetting represents UEFI, using the following properties:

• InstanceID = "DCIM:BootConfigSetting:Next:2"

• ElementName = "Next Boot Configuration Setting : Boot List Type 2"