Viewing Hardware and Configuration Data

The Hardware and Configuration tab displays:

• User and asset information collected using the asset questionnaire during the inventory.
• High level hardware information scanned during the inventory.
• Running software processes.

Further Information

• For information about the SMBIOS details, refer to the “System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) Version 2.4 Reference Specification,” which can be found at the DMTF website.

The Hardware and Configuration tab page consists of four panes. By default when you first start Viewer, only the first three are shown (Simple mode):

• Category tree
• Category description
• 1st level data
• 2nd level data

The following screen shot shows the Hardware and Configuration tab page in Advanced mode.

Advanced and Simple Display Mode

By default, when you first start the Viewer, the Hardware and Configuration data page is displayed in Simple mode.

You can display this information in a Advanced mode (hyperlinks shown and all four panes are displayed):

To switch between Advanced and Simple mode in the Hardware and Configuration data page:

Select or clear the Advanced Hardware View option in the View menu.

Category Tree

The left side of this tab page shows a tree. This tree contains folders for each of the Asset and Hardware data items. You can click on a folder to expand it and reveal further items in the category.

The icon indicates that multiple instances of that particular item may exist. In the following example, the multiple folder icon indicates that multiple Buses are supported (these being ISA and PCI).

Category Description

This pane provides a description about the data category you have selected from the tree.

A detailed list of all the hardware items scanned and descriptions for all of these can be found in the document entitled ‘Hardware and configuration data’.

1st Level Data

When you have selected a category in the tree, information is shown for it in this pane. In the previous example, the Buses supported were shown.

2nd Level Data

You will note that some entries in the 1st level pane may have hyperlinks. When clicked, further information for that instance of the item is show in the 2nd level data pane. In our example, the Cards (2) hyperlink was clicked and further information about the PCI card is displayed in 2nd level pane.