WBEM Profiles Guide

Version 2.0.0 HP Software Inventory and Update Profile 7
Classification Values Notes
Software Bundle Support Pack
BIOS/FCode System ROM
Driver Graphics
Driver Lights-Out Management
Driver Network
Driver Storage Controller
Driver Storage Fiber Channel
Driver System Management
Firmware Blade Infrastructure Onboard Administrator
Firmware Systems Management Baseboard Management Controller
Firmware Lights-Out Management (iLO/Management Processor, Service Processor)
Firmware Storage Controller
Firmware System ROM System firmware, ie: EFI, SMBIOS, etc
Firmware Storage Device
Firmware NIC
Instrumentation Blade Infrastructure
Management
Instrumentation Lights-Out Management
Instrumentation Storage Controller
Instrumentation Storage Fiber Channel
Instrumentation System Management
Application Tools
3.5 Matching Installed Software to Repository Software
Client applications often have the need to match installed versions of software to available software in a
repository. One main application for this is determining if a software component in the repository is an
upgrade to a component installed on a system.
HP shall use SoftwarePath and SoftwareFamily in IdentityInfoType to match installed software to
repository software. The SoftwarePath indicates the location that the component is installed or would
install by default (even though the user can change the install destination.) The SoftwareFamily contains
a name that is language and version independent. This name is normally the name of the primary
executable.
The SoftwarePath and the SoftwareFamily must remain unchanged between versions and language
releases.
Example: For the Windows Version Control Agent, the SoftwareFamily is ‘vcagent.exe’ and the path
might be ‘c:\hp\hpsmh\data\cgi-bin\vcagent’.
Note that the SoftwarePath is used for identification purposes only and should not be used by the client
application to determine the actual location of the installed component. Historically, the SoftwarePath was
created to work around a problem of multiple component types having the same SoftwareFamily (key
filename.)