Dell Command | Monitor manages client systems using the Common Information Model (CIM) standard and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), which are management protocols. This reduces the total cost of ownership, improves security, and provides a holistic approach managing all the devices in a network including clients, servers, storage, networking, and software devices.
Using CIM you can access Dell Command | Monitor through Web Services for Management Standards (WSMAN).
Dell Command | Monitor contains the underlying driver set that collects client system information from different sources including the BIOS, CMOS, System Management BIOS (SMBIOS), System Management Interface (SMI), operating system, Application Programming Interface (APIs), Dynamic-Link Library (DLLs), and registry settings. Dell Command | Monitor retrieves this information through the CIM Object Manager (CIMOM) interface, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) stack, or SNMP agent.
Dell Command | Monitor enables IT administrators to remotely collect asset information, modify CMOS settings, receive proactive notifications about potential fault conditions, and get alerts for potential security breaches. These alerts are available as events in the event log, CIM Indication, or received as SNMP traps after importing the Management Information Base (MIB) file and monitoring it.