Technical White Paper

6 Firmware Inventory
6.1 Software Inventory Profile Specification
The Dell Common Information Model (CIM) class extensions for supporting remote firmware
inventory are defined in the Dell OS Software Update
2
and related MOFs
3
. The diagrams
representing the classes that are implemented by the Lifecycle Controller firmware can be found in
Dell Software Inventory Profile.
6.2 Remote Inventory Method Invocation — Get Software
Inventory
The SoftwareIdentity class contains information for the BIOS and component firmware installed on
the target system as well as available firmware images cached in the Lifecycle Controller. The
enumeration of the SoftwareIdentity class returns a list of SoftwareIdentity objects with properties
such as firmware type and version.
Profile and Associated MOFs:
http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/DCIM.Library.Profile
EXAMPLE:
wsman enumerate
http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cimschema/2/root/dcim/DCIM_SoftwareIdent
ity
-h $IPADDRESS -V -v -c dummy.cert -P 443
-u $USERNAME -p $PASSWORD
-j utf-8 -y basic
When this method is run, a list of software identity objects will be returned, including installed and
available firmware. Below is a snippet of the output.
OUTPUT:
<n1:DCIM_SoftwareIdentity>
<n1:BuildNumber>4846</n1:BuildNumber>
<n1:Classifications>10</n1:Classifications>
<n1:ComponentID>28897</n1:ComponentID>
<n1:ComponentType>APAC</n1:ComponentType>
<n1:DeviceID xsi:nil="true"/>
<n1:ElementName>Dell Lifecycle Controller 2, 1.0.0.4846, X79
</n1:ElementName>
<n1:FQDD>USC.Embedded.1:LC.Embedded.1</n1:FQDD>
<n1:IdentityInfoType>OrgID:ComponentType:ComponentID
</n1:IdentityInfoType>
<n1:IdentityInfoValue>DCIM:firmware:28897
</n1:IdentityInfoValue>
<n1:InstallationDate>2012-01-15T22:22:32Z
</n1:InstallationDate>
<n1:InstanceID>DCIM:INSTALLED#802__USC.Embedded.1:LC.Embedded.1
</n1:InstanceID>
<n1:IsEntity>true</n1:IsEntity>
<n1:MajorVersion>1</n1:MajorVersion>
<n1:MinorVersion>0</n1:MinorVersion>