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.

Table 44. CIM_BIOSElement Properties

Class Name:

CIM_BIOSElement

Parent Class:

CIM_SoftwareElement

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.