Windows Management Instrumentation Providers - Dell iDRAC 8 User Manual

Windows Management Instrumentation providers

WMI is a set of extensions to the Windows Driver Model that provides an operating system interface through which instrumented
components provide information and notification. WMI is Microsoft's implementation of the Web-Based Enterprise Management
(WBEM) and Common Information Model (CIM) standards from the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) to manage
Server hardware, operating systems and applications. WMI Providers helps to integrate with Systems Management Consoles such
as Microsoft System Center and enables scripting to manage Microsoft Windows Servers.
You can enable or disable the WMI option in iDRAC. iDRAC exposes the WMI classes through the iDRAC Service Module providing
the server's health information. By default, WMI information feature is enabled. The iDRAC Service Module exposes the WSMAN
monitored classes in iDRAC through WMI. The classes are exposed in the root/cimv2/dcim namespace.
The classes can be accessed using any of the standard WMI client interfaces. For more information, see the profile documents.
The following examples use the DCIM_account class to illustrate the capability that WMI information feature provides in iDRAC
Service Module. For the details of the supported classes and profiles, see the WSMAN profiles documentation available at Dell
TechCenter.
CIM Interface
Enumerate instances of a
class
Get a specific instance of a
class
Get associated instances of
an instance
Get references of an instance winrm e wmi/root/
262
WinRM
winrm e wmi/root/
cimv2/dcim/
dcim_account
winrm g wmi/root/
cimv2/dcim/
DCIM_Account?
CreationClassName=DCI
M_Account
+Name=iDRAC.Embedded.
1#Users.
2+SystemCreationClass
Name=DCIM_SPComputerS
ystem
+SystemName=systemmc
winrm e wmi/root/
cimv2/dcim/* -
dialect:association -
filter:
{object=DCIM_Account?
CreationClassName=DCI
M_Account
+Name=iDRAC.Embedded.
1#Users.
1+SystemCreationClass
Name=DCIM_SPComputerS
ystem
+SystemName=systemmc}
cimv2/dcim/* -
dialect:association –
associations -filter:
{object=DCIM_Account?
CreationClassName=DCI
M_Account
+Name=iDRAC.Embedded.
1#Users.
1+SystemCreationClass
Name=DCIM_SPComputerS
WMIC
wmic /namespace:\
\root\cimv2\dcim
PATH dcim_account
wmic /namespace:\
\root\cimv2\dcim
PATH dcim_account
where
Name="iDRAC.Embedded.
1#Users.16"
wmic /namespace:\
\root\cimv2\dcim
PATH dcim_account
where
Name='iDRAC.Embedded.
1#Users.2' ASSOC
Not applicable
PowerShell
Get-WmiObject
dcim_account -
namespace root/cimv2/
dcim
Get-WmiObject -
Namespace root
\cimv2\dcim -Class
dcim_account -filter
"Name='iDRAC.Embedded
.1#Users.16'"
Get-Wmiobject -
Query "ASSOCIATORS
OF
{DCIM_Account.Creatio
nClassName='DCIM_Acco
unt',Name='iDRAC.Embe
dded.1#Users.
2',SystemCreationClas
sName='DCIM_SPCompute
rSystem',SystemName='
systemmc'}" -
namespace root/cimv2/
dcim
Get-Wmiobject -
Query "REFERENCES
OF
{DCIM_Account.Creatio
nClassName='DCIM_Acco
unt',Name='iDRAC.Embe
dded.1#Users.
2',SystemCreationClas
sName='DCIM_SPCompute
rSystem',SystemName='
systemmc'}" -