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• Broadcom NICs and LOMs

• Power supplies

•BIOS

•OS Driver Pack

•USC

•Diagnostics

The instant firmware inventory class provides firmware inventory information

on:

• The firmware installed on the supported devices

• The firmware versions available for installation for each device

Firmware Inventory Using WS-Management

The Dell Software Inventory profile defines the Dell CIM data model

extensions that represent installed and available to be installed versions of

firmware and embedded software on the server. The firmware inventory can

be accessed using the WS-Management web services protocol.

To request for firmware inventory using Windows WS-Management:

Request inventory of the system using the WS-Management enumeration

command for class

DCIM_SoftwareIdentity

Users that have administrator or Execute Server Command privileges can

retrieve the firmware and embedded software inventory of the system.

Inventory instances are pulled up from the system in both system-off and

system-on conditions.

The enumeration request will generate a WS-Management error when the

UEFI system services are set to

Disabled

Requested inventories are collected as "Installed" and "Available" CIM

instances.

The software currently installed on the component is listed as the

"Installed Software Instance". The key property value of this instance,

InstanceID represented as DCIM: INSTALLED :<

COMPONENTTYPE> :< COMPONENTID> :< Version> and the

status value of this instance is represented as "Installed"

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