Environment
Novell ZENworks 7.5 Asset Management - ZAM7.5
Situation
This is an Enhancement request to allow the collector to
gather WMI information the same way it does with registry keys or
environment variables.
Resolution
Added to ZAM
7.5 IR 4
If downloading the
Interim Release manually from https://download.novell.com, search
for ZENworks 7.5 Asset Managment IR 4. The Interim releases
can also be set up within the ZAM Manager for the Task server to
check the site on a scheduled basis, and download and apply them
automatically. Please refer to the Help Section for details of how
to set up automatic downloads if desired.
Each interim release is cumulative. If Interim Release 4 is not available due to a newer interim release being placed on the website, be assured that the code needed is in the later release.
Additional Information
To use the new
functionality, the user will set up defaults exactly as they
currently do to populate them from the registry, except for a
couple of critical details, specifically: * Where to populate from
the registry they currently preface the desired registry key with"%HKEY:", they now can specify WMI population with the prefix"%WMI:". * The WMI specification must be in the format"%WMI::.". For
example, to populate a UDF from the "cimv2" namespace,"Win32_SoundDevice" class, "Manufacturer" property, the
specification would be written"%WMI:cimv2:Win32_SoundDevice.Manufacturer". Note the placement of
colons and period (dot); that's industry-standard WMI formatting. *
The specified WMI namespace MUST be in the local (not a remote)
machine's WMI root; we don't currently have the ability to parse an
entire WMI tree, and don't anticipate adding that ability.