Systems Inventory Manager Data Structures
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1 Data Structures
Introduction
The Systems Inventory Manager (SIM) is an inventory collection and management web application that can
collect over 600 different system attributes. Given that the volume of data you can collect is extremely large,
SIM uses the Common Information Model (CIM) to logically group the data. SIM organizes the data into
seven groups of information that are further divided into 24 categories. See Table 1-1, “Data Groups &
Categories,” on page 10.
SIM uses the categories of information to filter the data at the attribute level. It also uses the categories to
cluster similar data in logical groups so that the graphical user interface (GUI) can display the data.
This guide describes the following:
• The seven main groups of information.
• The 24 categories and their data table structures.
• The attributes that the GUI displays inside various categories.
• The attributes that you can specify as part of the filter feature of the SIM GUI to limit the amount of data
collected.
NOTE SIM does not handle Windows- and Linux-specific tables at this time.