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