Reference Guide

CIM_BIOSElement
The CIM_BIOSElement class listed in BIOSElement Properties describes the BIOS for the system. The BIOS controls the
following:
● Communications between the microprocessor and peripheral devices, such as the keyboard and the video adapter.
● Miscellaneous functions, such as system messages.
The following table describes the property, description, and data type details for CIM_BIOSElement.
Class Name: CIM_BIOSElement
Parent Class: CIM_SoftwareElement
Table 45. CIM_BIOSElement Properties
Property Description Data Type
Version Provides the product version information. string
Manufacturer See Common Properties of Classes string
PrimaryBIOS Specifies whether a given BIOS is the
primary BIOS for the system. When the
value = TRUE, the BIOS is the primary
BIOS.
Boolean
CIM_SoftwareFeature
The CIM_SoftwareFeature class described in Table properties below defines a particular function or capability of a product
or application system. This class is intended to be meaningful to a consumer, or user of a product, rather than to explain how
the product is built or packaged. When a software feature can exist on multiple platforms or operating systems (for example,
a client component of a three-tiered client/server application might run on Windows Server 2003), a software feature is a
collection of all the software elements for these different platforms. The users of the model must be aware of this situation
because typically they are interested in a sub-collection of the software elements required for a particular platform.
The following table describes the property, description, and data type details for CIM SoftwareFeature.
Class Name: CIM_SoftwareFeature
Parent Class: CIM_LogicalElement
Table 46. CIM_SoftwareFeature Properties
Property Description Data Type
IdentifyingNumber Provides product identification such as a
serial number of the software
string
54 CIM_LogicalElement