I have only been a customer of Spectrum 9.2 so I cannot speak for other versions.
What model type are your hosts modeled as? Are they Host_systemEDGE, Host_Device,Host_Dell, or GnSNMPDev, or ? If there are Host_systemEDGE and a windows server there are 2 attributes you can easily find: Attribute name Attribute ID ntSysBiosDate 0x11611f2 ntSysBiosVersion 0x11611f3 I have not come across anything for other OS's with sysEdge but I have not looked real hard either. There is a possibility to that you can you the Model Type Editor to create an attribute that can go after an OID. To get into the MTE you have to shut down the SpectroSERVER because it locks the model DB and needs exclusive access. The way I would try to set it up is to first know what model type they are being modeled as. Then find that model type in the MTE and add a custom attribute. This is where it gets fuzzy for me. See if there is a setting in there to set it to use an OID. If there is then try and put in your OID. There are a few check boxes that you will want to set like Memory, Database, and I cannot remember off hand what the other ones are. Once you are done save it now you have a custom attribute for that model type. So whenever a new model gets created with that model type it should query that OID and store that value. Also, depending on those check boxes you checked that value will be queried EVERYTIME you do a search that requires getting that value. This can get expensive in terms of overhead if you are not careful how you store it and if you have hundreds or thousands of servers. Also, if you only store the value a model creation time it will not help you with your already discovered hosts so make sure you try this stuff on a development system. Once you have this data you can do some really cool stuff with how you display the data and build locator searches and so on. Let us know how it works out. Thanks, From: Michael Harris [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 11:38 AM To: spectrum Subject: [spectrum] Dell BIOS info List, Before I reinvent the wheel. I need to get the BIOS version and Date from Dell_Host machines. They run Openmanage and that information is not displayed anywhere in Spectrum...I can find it when I do a MIB dump. I would like it to be displayed somewhere in the information tab. I also need to be able to list all my Dell_Hosts and see the information in one or two of the columns. I'm pretty sure what needs to be done, just hoping someone beat me to it. Thanks, Mike * --To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected] --- To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected]
