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 includes 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:
* Hardware Inventory Class
All objects in AD are instances of classes defined in the AD schema. The schema provides
definitions for common objects such as users, computers, and printers
Adding new device/class to hardware inventory
In the hardware inventory class window click the add button
Next click the ‘Connect’ buttonSelect the desired class and click ‘Edit’
Give your new device/class a friendly name (instead of the default class name)
Now you can select the properties you want to add (as you did in the previous section).
You can see the result in the resource explorer:
Hardware inventory works by querying Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) for all
data from certain WMI classes. WMI includes classes for operating system configuration and
entities (such as user accounts), installed software, software configuration, and other objects
(such as for the logged on user). These classes are supplements to hardware classes.
Hardware inventory collects information about many things besides hardware. For example,
it can inventory software by collecting details about programs listed in Add or Remove
Programs in Control Panel or programs that have been installed using Windows Installer.
Most of your inventory needs can be served by hardware inventory collection alone.
