Your network contains a System Center 2012 Configuration Manager environment.
Your company develops a custom hardware device and installs the device on all of the client
computers in the research department.
You discover that information about the device fails to appear in any inventory queries or reports.
Information about other hardware devices appears in the inventory queries and reports.
You need to ensure that Configuration Manager data include information about the custom
hardware device.
What should you do?
A.
Enable a default WMI class in the Hardware Inventory Classes list.
B.
Modify the Enable hardware inventory on clients setting.
C.
Add a WMI class to the Hardware inventory Classes list.
D.
Add a file name to the Software Inventory configuration.
E.
Select Collect NOIDMIF files in Hardware Inventory.
F.
Add a file name to the Hardware inventory configuration.
G.
Add a file name to Software Metering.
H.
Add a WMI class to the Sms_def.mof file.
I.
Modify the Enable software inventory on clients setting.
Explanation:
Add a WMI class to the Hardware inventory Classes list.http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg712290.aspx
How to Extend Hardware Inventory in Configuration Manager
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager hardware inventory reads information about devices by
using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). WMI is the Microsoft implementation of webbased Enterprise Management (WBEM), which is an industry standard for accessing management
information in an enterprise environment.
In previous versions of Configuration Manager, you could extend hardware inventory by modifying
the file sms_def.mof on the site server.
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In System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, you no longer edit the sms_def.mof file as you did in
Configuration Manager 2007. Instead, you can enable and disable WMI classes, and add new classes
to collect by hardware inventory by using client settings. Configuration Manager provides the
following methods to extend hardware inventory:
Enable or disable existing inventory classes – You can enable or disable the default inventory classes
used by Configuration Manager or you can create custom client settings that allow you to collect
different hardware inventory classes from specified collections of clients.
Add a new inventory class – You can add a new inventory class from the WMI namespace of another
device.
Import and export hardware inventory classes – You can import and export Managed Object Format
(MOF) files that contain inventory classes from the Configuration Manager console.
Create NOIDMIF Files – Use NOIDMIF files to collect information about client devices that cannot be
inventoried by Configuration Manager.
Create IDMIF Files – Use IDMIF files to collect information about assets in your organization that are
not associated with a Configuration Manager client, for example, projectors, photocopiers and
network printers.
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Win32_Environment class (Windows)
The Win32_Environment WMI class represents an environment or system environment setting on a
Windows computer system. Querying this class returns environment variables found in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Sessionmanager\Environment
And HKEY_USERS\<user>\Environment
Further information:
