OMCI from Command Line

OMCI from Command-line

There have been requests to provide a command-line tool for OMCI (OpenManage Client Instrumentation) so that System administrators who are not VBS (Visual Basic Script) or PowerShell script savvy can quickly check what OMCI provides and use it. For that purpose there is WMIC (Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line) which is integrated in Windows OSes as part of the WMI stack.

WMIC comes handy as it does not have to be installed separately. If you have a system running windows OS , you have WMIC too; ready to use from regular command prompt.

 WMIC is an executable wmic.exe located in C:\Windows\System32\wbem.

Let’s attempt to be hands-on with OMCI using WMIC commands.

Please open a command prompt and start to execute the following commands -  

Check if OMCI is installed

The namespace for access to Dell OMCI classes is “root\DCIM\sysman”.

wmic /namespace:\\root\dcim\sysman path __namespace

If OMCI is not installed , the abpove command will output -

ERROR:

Description = Invalid namespace

Check the DMTF profiles registered by OMCI

wmic /namespace:\\root\dcim\sysman Path DCIM_RegisteredProfile get RegisteredName

Check the Properties Available for a Class

wmic /namespace:\\root\dcim\sysman path dcim_BIOSEnumeration get /?

Check the BIOS attributes reported by OMCI

wmic /namespace:\\root\dcim\sysman path dcim_BIOSEnumeration get AttributeName

Get full instance info about a BIOS Attribute

wmic /namespace:\\root\dcim\sysman path dcim_BIOSEnumeration.AttributeName='Optimus' get /format:list

wmic /namespace:\\root\dcim\sysman path dcim_BIOSEnumeration.AttributeName='Secure Boot' get /format:list

wmic /namespace:\\root\dcim\sysman path dcim_BIOSEnumeration.AttributeName='Trusted Platform Module' get

Check if Passwords are installed

wmic /namespace:\\root\dcim\sysman path dcim_BIOSPassword get AttributeName,IsSet

Get First Power On Date and Manufacturing Date

wmic /namespace:\\root\dcim\sysman path dcim_chassis get FirstPowerOnDate, ManufactureDate /format:list

Get Model and Service Tag

wmic /namespace:\\root\dcim\sysman path dcim_chassis get Model,Tag /format:list

Get PropertyOwnership Tag

wmic /namespace:\\root\dcim\sysman path dcim_BIOSString Where "AttributeName like '%Property%'" get /format:list

Get Wake-on-LAN setting

wmic /namespace:\\root\dcim\sysman path dcim_BIOSEnumeration where "AttributeName like '%Wake-On%'" Get /format:list

Get the Boot order

wmic /namespace:\\root\dcim\sysman path dcim_BootSourceSetting get BIOSBootString /format:list

Clear the Command Log ssacmd.xml

wmic /namespace:\\root\dcim\sysman path dcim_recordlog WHERE "ElementName='CIM Provider Command Log'" call ClearLog

 Notes –

1.    To get the output in a file please use the switch  /output:<file-name>

2.    WMIC can be started in Interactive Mode by executing  the command WMIC.