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System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Unleashed: Supplement to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM) Unleashed
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System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Unleashed: Supplement to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM) Unleashed

by Kerrie Meyler, Jason Sandys, Greg Ramsey, Dan Andersen, Panu Saukko, Kenneth van Surksum, Michael Wiles
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
384 pages
11h 9m
English
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Hardware Inventory

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.

What Is OMI

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 ...

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