Dell System ID --> WMI Property?

Michael E Brown Michael_E_Brown at dell.com
Wed Oct 31 01:35:30 CDT 2007


On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:33:10AM -0400, Anderson, Ian wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>     With regards to
> http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Oss/Firmware_Tools/bugs, is there a
> WMI property that corresponds to the Dell System ID?  We have an
> inventory system that can query arbitrary WMI properties and, last time
> I checked, we had 73 models of Dell computers in our organization.

No. The Dell System ID is stored in a fixed offset in the BIOS memory
map, not in the DMI/SMBIOS table.

See libraries/systeminf/IdByte.cpp for info...
--
Michael


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