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17.2  Getting a BIOS Enumeration Instance 
Getting one particular instance of the BIOSEnumeration, instead of all instances as shown in Section 
17.1, is shown below. 
Get a BIOSEnumeration instance with the following parameters and syntax: 
 [INSTANCEID]: This is obtained from the enumeration in Section 17.1, which shows an 
example using BIOS.Setup.1-1:NumLock as an instanceID 
EXAMPLE: 
winrm g http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/root/dcim/DCIM_BIOSEnumeration 
?InstanceID=[INSTANCE ID]  
-u:[USER] -p:[PASSWORD]  
-r:https://[IPADDRESS]/wsman -SkipCNcheck -SkipCAcheck  
-encoding:utf-8 -a:basic 
OUTPUT: 
DCIM_BIOSEnumeration 
 AttributeName = NumLock 
 CurrentValue = On 
 DefaultValue = null 
 FQDD = BIOS.Setup.1-1 
 InstanceID = BIOS.Setup.1-1:NumLock 
 IsReadOnly = false 
 PendingValue = null 
 PossibleValues = On, Off 
17.3  Changing the BIOS BootMode-SetAttribute() 
The SetAttribute() method can be used to apply changes to setting the BootMode configuration to a 
given instance. 
Invoke SetAttribute() with the following parameters (from Section 17.1) and syntax: 
TARGET: Obtained from the InstanceID field 
AttributeName: Obtained from the AttributeName field 
AttributeValue: Obtained from the PossibleValues field 
EXAMPLE: 
winrm i SetAttribute http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-
schema/2/root/dcim/DCIM_BIOSService 
?SystemCreationClassName=DCIM_ComputerSystem 
+CreationClassName=DCIM_BIOSService 










