SMS: Resource Explorer Does Not Show Readable Format of Inventory Values (200879)

SYMPTOMS

Resource Explorer does not show text values of various inventory information on clients recorded by the Hardware Inventory agents.

For example, run Resource Explorer on Systems Management Server 2.0 Administrator console by expanding the Collections node, highlight any populated collection and right-click (or Action menu) on a client:

1. Go to the Hardware Inventory folder and double-click the Keyboard subfolder. The layout value displays as "00000409" instead of "English (United States)."
2. Go to the Hardware Inventory folder and double-click the Disk Partitions subfolder. The Bootable and Boot Partition values display as either "1" or "0" instead of Yes or No.

Systems Management Server providers should replace the results with the equivalent enumerated values. To do this, however, the server Managed Object Format (MOF) would have to be updated to include the various enumerations, and the Provider would have to make the relevant substitutions when passing this information to the Resource Explorer to be displayed.

These changes require additional infrastructure modifications which will not be provided in the initial release of Systems Management Server version 2.0. Support for this type of enumeration will be available in a future release.

class CIM_PointingDevice:CIM_UserDevice
{

        [read,
        Values {"Unknown", "Not Applicable", "Right Handed Operation",
        "Left Handed Operation"} ]
    uint16 Handedness;
        [read]
    uint8 NumberOfButtons;
        [read, ValueMap {"1", "2", "3",
        "4", "5", "6", "7", "8"} , Values {"Other", "Unknown", "Mouse",
        "Track Ball", "Track Point", "Glide Point", "Touch Pad", "Touch          Screen"
        } , MappingStrings {"MIF.DMTF|Pointing Device|001.1"} ]
    uint16 PointingType;
        [read]
    uint32 Resolution;

};