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 45. 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.

Table 46. CIM_SoftwareFeature Properties

Class Name:

CIM_SoftwareFeature

Parent Class:

CIM_LogicalElement

Property Description Data Type

IdentifyingNumber Provides product identification such as a

serial number of the software

string