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Dell OMCI SMBiosSettings - Hardware Inventory Extension - 10/15/2008 1:19:20 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sherry in your morning posting for "Dell OMCI SMBiosSettings - Hardware Inventory Extension" http://www.myitforum.com/articles/42/view.asp?id=12212

Can this be applied to the SMS2003 SP3 version, if so can you post it?

thx.
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RE: Dell OMCI SMBiosSettings - Hardware Inventory Exten... - 10/15/2008 1:27:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		Absolutely.  Just add (to the top of the snippet) this line:
#pragma namespace ("\\\\.\\root\\cimv2\\sms")

Put the snippet (with the added pragma declaration) at the bottom of sms_def.mof (or your mini, if that's what you do).  If you rarely edit the mof, I mean the sms_def.mof in inboxes\clifiles.src\hinv on your server. No need to mofcomp anything on the SMS2003 clients--the clients already have that WMI namespace if they have OMCI, so all you're doing is asking the server to update the policy & ask for that info.

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RE: Dell OMCI SMBiosSettings - Hardware Inventory Exten... - 10/16/2008 2:18:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sherry, for some reason i'm not getting any records, (our environment is OMCI 7.5, but i upgraded to 7.6 just in case and still no reporting despite the wait and the forced INV.

Any ideas of what can cause this?


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RE: Dell OMCI SMBiosSettings - Hardware Inventory Exten... - 10/16/2008 6:41:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		Is the client trying to report? Check inventory agent.log

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RE: Dell OMCI SMBiosSettings - Hardware Inventory Exten... - 10/17/2008 10:17:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thx Sherry for your reply, as you see from the attached Agent.Log no errors related to reporting.

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RE: Dell OMCI SMBiosSettings - Hardware Inventory Exten... - 10/17/2008 1:42:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		I think that attached file was policyevalutor.log?  I meant inventoryagent.log.  Specifically, look for select whatever, whatever from Dell_SMBiosSettings.  That'll tell us if the client even knows it should try to report on that class.  There's a difference in troubleshooting paths if the client a) doesn't even know to try reporting the new stuff  b) knows to try to report, and fails in inventoryagent.log or c) appears to successfully report, but the data never appears in the database.

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RE: Dell OMCI SMBiosSettings - Hardware Inventory Exten... - 10/17/2008 2:50:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sherry, it is showing Failed to enumerate instances.


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RE: Dell OMCI SMBiosSettings - Hardware Inventory Exten... - 10/17/2008 3:09:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		Then Dell OMCI isn't successfully installed.  If I recall correctly OMCI is only applicable to certain Dell models. Even if you installed it, it may not have applied.  I think in the OMCI download, there's a readme or something that says what models it will work on.  Of course, if you haven't installed it yet (and rebooted since installation), start there!  LOL

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RE: Dell OMCI SMBiosSettings - Hardware Inventory Exten... - 10/17/2008 5:02:54 PM   
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I do have the proper version and did reboot and did couple of installs and unsistalls and reinstall on different machines...

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RE: Dell OMCI SMBiosSettings - Hardware Inventory Exten... - 10/17/2008 5:28:20 PM   
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Status: offline 		All I can say is the log file is acting like that namespace isn't there.  I'd say go into Wbemtest; but first you have to be in SYSTEM context (Dell locked that wmi area out from normal admins, the sneaky devils).  If you haven't done that before; at a cmd prompt:  AT 1-minute-into-the-future /interactive "cmd.exe"    Like   at 14:31 /interactive "cmd.exe"             then, at 2:31pm you'd get a cmd prompt in system context.  Now that you are in system context, from *that* cmd prompt, wbemtest, connect, change it from root\default to root\dellomci   and connect

Does it connect at all?  I'm guessing not, simply because inventoryagent.log shows it can't either.  If you *do* get a connect, then I likely have something misspelled in the mof edit; like the chassisintrusion or something.   Click on Query....  button, and type in select * from dell_smbiossettings   and click the apply button.  Double-click the entry.  Then click on "Show MOF".  Did I misspell one of the fields you're looking for?  I didn't set to TRUE every single one when I tested.  I can completely believe I misspelled something.

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RE: Dell OMCI SMBiosSettings - Hardware Inventory Exten... - 10/17/2008 6:13:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		As you see I was able to connect, and No misspelling.  ...I bet the system is telling go home it's Friday.

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RE: Dell OMCI SMBiosSettings - Hardware Inventory Exten... - 10/23/2008 12:19:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		Good Morning Sherry, i tried your new posting today http://www.myitforum.com/articles/8/view.asp?id=12264
for the BioS Password, and still having no reports, I've tested it on Dell Optiplex 260, 620, 745, 755, and on Latitude 820, 830
using OMCI 7.3, 7.5 and 7.6 and still not getting any results back from either report, Am I missing anything,

I also checked if I'm connecting to the WMI, and was successfull...

Any ideas to try...

Thx in Advance ..

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RE: Dell OMCI SMBiosSettings - Hardware Inventory Exten... - 10/23/2008 4:32:48 PM  1 votes
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Status: offline 		Well, this doesn't make any sense whatsoever; but try this.  In the mof edit, the namespace is \\localhost\root\dellomci  Try changing it in the mof to \\.\root\dellomci (replace localhost with just .)

Who knows? maybe it'll work.

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RE: Dell OMCI SMBiosSettings - Hardware Inventory Exten... - 10/23/2008 5:08:58 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sherry, you are the Lady...

Changing the "Localhost" did the trick...

do you know why?

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RE: Dell OMCI SMBiosSettings - Hardware Inventory Exten... - 10/23/2008 5:10:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		Just a guess, but I was testing on a Vista box.  You're probably XP or something else?  I'll go over & update my blog entries now...

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RE: Dell OMCI SMBiosSettings - Hardware Inventory Exten... - 10/23/2008 5:11:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes we are Win XP SP3 with SMS SP3 advance client.

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RE: Dell OMCI SMBiosSettings - Hardware Inventory Exten... - 10/23/2008 5:18:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		And here's a PIC of how each report (Wake ON LAN and PASSWORD) look like.

Thx again Sherry.


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RE: Dell OMCI SMBiosSettings - Hardware Inventory Exten... - 10/23/2008 5:45:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sherry, if I may add one more thing, in the report, it will be nice to make it :

  1- List the machine name
  2- And allow for the "%" wildcard use.

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