Hard Drive Information

Hello Everyone. I am looking for any assistance in seeing if BigFix can get the manufacturer of a Hard Drive (HP, DELL etc…) Anyone know?

We actually had a pretty lengthy discussion on this recently, at HP Enterprise SSD - Critical firmware update

The short version is, “It Depends ™”

If it’s just Windows, and only directly-available drives, it’s pretty easy to retrieve with WMI.

If it’s in a RAID volume, you may need to add your RAID vendor’s WMI providers and know which classes to query to get the underlying hardware info. I think we ran it to ground for HP Smart Array in that discussion.

If you need Linux systems as well, we also retrieved those using a different method.

Ok, thanks. My experience with WMI is very small. I don’t know how to retrieve it via WMI

Yeah, looking back we went through a lot in that thread. To handle at least the simple case of non-RAID drives, you could use

q: selects "Manufacturer, Model from Win32_DiskDrive" of wmis
A: Manufacturer=(Standard disk drives)
A: Model=SAMSUNG MZVLB512HAJQ-000L7
A: Manufacturer=(Standard disk drives)
A: Model=SanDisk Extreme SSD SCSI Disk Device
T: 10.819 ms
I: plural wmi select

I’ll give this a shot. Thanks very much