What is CIM?

Question

Can someone please explain CIM? I seem to remember metion of CIM on the DRAC install properties,

wbacruz · Answer

Sorry, not sure what happened there. Anyway, on the DRAC properties, and I also see CIM here on the IT Assistant setup. Thanks.

Ramon Ray · Answer

CIM is client information model

Here is a link to a very good article telling you everything you every wanted to know about CIM and then some.

Cim is used to do discovery of system that have cim support. This is usually desktops, that have the OMCI installed on them.

Dell Open Manage Whitepapers

Here is a link to the Dell open manage white papers, there are some good papers on OMCI also.

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