(imported topic written by vgbond91)
Can Bigfix be customized to maintain additional fields like
Year of the manufacture
The name of the vendor
Warranty/AMC details
and also generate reports based on them like
Alerts for the warranty period getting over
RAM thefts
and etc
(imported comment written by brolly3391)
Hello vgbond,
Yes it can. Some of these items are exposed through WMI if the manufacturer has allowed this. In these cases we can report on it by writing a scrap of relevance and inserting it into an analysis or Retrieved Property. Easy stuff.
q: selects ("* from win32_BIOS") of WMI
A: BiosCharacteristics
A: BIOSVersion
A: BuildNumber
A: Caption=Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A06
A: CodeSet
A: CurrentLanguage=en|US|iso8859-1
A: Description=Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A06
A: IdentificationCode
A: InstallableLanguages=1
A: InstallDate
A: LanguageEdition
A: ListOfLanguages
A: Manufacturer=Dell Inc.
A: Name=Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A06
A: OtherTargetOS
A: PrimaryBIOS=True
A: ReleaseDate=20051002000000.000000+000
A: SerialNumber=myserial
A: SMBIOSBIOSVersion=A06
A: SMBIOSMajorVersion=2
A: SMBIOSMinorVersion=3
A: SMBIOSPresent=True
A: SoftwareElementID=Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A06
A: SoftwareElementState=3
A: Status=OK
A: TargetOperatingSystem=0
A: Version=DELL - 27d50a02
Items that are not exposed can be tracked by stamping the registry when the system is deployed with the information you want to track. If the operating system “knows” something then the BigFix client can probably pull it and report on it.
Web reports can then be leveraged to generate ad hoc or reoccurring reports with very little effort.
for RAM thefts: see here
(imported comment written by Shembop91)
We actually have the Inventory Asset tag in the BIOS, but I am not seeing this information showing up anywhere. Is the something that I need to do to make this show up?
(imported comment written by BenKus)
Do you have the BigFix Inventory and License Fixlet site? It should have a built-in property for the asset tag (the property name is “Identifying Number - Windows”).
Ben
(imported comment written by Shembop91)
Actually we have a Separate asset tag property which is related to our own bar code on the machines. When it comes from our supplier, they have added this data to the Bios, but this is currently not being returned using the method above.
(imported comment written by BenKus)
Do you know where they put it? In the upcoming BigFix 8.0 release, we have added some smbios inspectors that might help in this area…
Ben
(imported comment written by Shembop91)
It is a field in the System Information part of the Bios. On my laptop, it is called Notebook Asset Tracking Number.
I am not certain that it is consistent across vendors, or types (workstation vs. laptop)
I have a picture, but I don’t see a way to upload the picture.
But… are you saying there is no way in BF 7.2?
(imported comment written by JackCoates91)
Shembop
But… are you saying there is no way in BF 7.2?
No, but that you’ll need to make a new attribute to get it because it’s not out of the box in 7.2 (as in brolly’s advice). The fixlet debugger is very useful in this process: http://software.bigfix.com/download/bes/72/FixletDebugger-7.5.0.933.zip
Re: attaching something in the forum, scroll down from the message window to see the Attachment area.
(imported comment written by Shembop91)
FYI - We got as much as we could using the following:
if string value of select “SMBIOSAssetTag from Win32_SystemEnclosure” of WMI != “” then string value of select “SMBIOSAssetTag from Win32_SystemEnclosure” of WMI else “NA”
We initially did selects “* from Win32_SystemEnclosure” of WMI to figure out what fields/values we had at our disposal, and then used the code above to return the Asset Tag.
Onward, and upward!