September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
11h 9m
English
Hardware inventory is supported on both the Linux/UNIX and the OS X cross-platform agents. It operates much like the Windows-based agent. The database of hardware information is queried and the results reported back to the MP.
In the Windows world, hardware inventory is taken from the web-based enterprise management (WBEM) database. In the Linux/UNIX and OS X world, this database of information is called open management infrastructure (OMI). This statement is taken from The Open Group website, http://www.opengroup.org/software/omi:
OMI is an open source project to further the development of a production quality implementation of the DMTF CIM/WBEM standards. The OMI CIMOM is also designed to be portable and highly ...