WinPE 2.0 and SMBIOSW

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We currently are deploying HP XW460c Blade Workstations.

I am wanting to pull information from the SMBIOS area to give my blades a unique name.

I am trying to find a smbios application that will work with WinPE 2.0

The SMBIOS info is not readily available in the WMI except for MSSmBios_rawsmbiostables, which is in a binary dump form and I am not sure how to convert it..

SELECT * FROM MSSmBios_rawsmbiostables


TRUE	36	SMBiosData	2240	[0, 24, 0, 0, 1, 2, 0, 240, 3, 63, 128, 218, 201, 125, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 7, 255, 255, 255, 255, 72, 80, 0, 86, 48, 51, 0, 48, 49, 47, 49, 53, 47, 50, 48, 48, 56, 0, 0, 1, 27, 0, 1, 4, 5, 0, 1, 52, 52, 50, 56, 50, 52, 85, 83, 69, 56, 51, 54, 69, 86, 87, 88, 6, 2, 3, 85, 83, 69, 56, 51, 54, 69, 86, 87, 88, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 0, 52, 52, 50, 56, 50, 52, 45, 66, 50, 49, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 0, 80, 114, 111, 76, 105, 97, 110, 116, 0, 72, 80, 0, 80, 114, 111, 76, 105, 97, 110, 116, 32, 120, 119, 52, 54, 48, 99, 32, 66, 108, 97, 100, 101, 32, 87, 111, 114, 107, 115, 116, 97, 116, 105, 111, 110, 0, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 0, 0, 2, 8, 0, 2, 1, 2, 0, 3, 72, 101, 119, 108, 101, 116, 116, 32, 80, 97, 99, 107, 97, 114, 100, 0, 48, 55, 55, 65, 0, 85, 83, 69, 56, 51, 54, 69, 86, 87, 88, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 0, 0, 3, 17, 0, 3, 1, 23, 0, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 72, 80, 0, 85, 83, 69, 56, 51, 54, 69, 86, 87, 67, 32, 32, 32, 0, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 0, 0, 4, 40, 0, 4, 1, 3, 179, 2, 118, 6, 1, 0, 255, 251, 235, 191, 0, 142, 53, 5, 192, 18, 5, 13, 65, 4, 16, 7, 32, 7, 48, 7, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 2, 4, 0, 80, 114, 111, 99, 32, 49, 0, 73, 110, 116, 101, 108, 0, 0, 4, 40, 6, 4, 1, 3, 179, 2, 118, 6, 1, 0, 255, 251, 235, 191, 0, 142, 53, 5, 192, 18, 5, 13, 68, 4, 22, 7, 38, 7, 54, 7, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 2, 4, 0, 80, 114, 111, 99, 32, 50, 0, 73, 110, 116, 101, 108, 0, 0, 7, 19, 16, 7, 1, 128, 1, 128, 0, 64, 0, 8, 0, 8, 0, 0, 5, 4, 7, 78, 111, 100, 101, 32, 49, 32, 73, 110, 116, 101, 114, 110, 97, 108, 32, 76, 49, 32, 67, 97, 99, 104, 101, 0, 0, 7, 19, 22, 7, 1, 128, 1, 128, 0, 64, 0, 8, 0, 8, 0, 0, 5, 4, 7, 78, 111, 100, 101, 32, 50, 32, 73, 110, 116, 101, 114, 110, 97, 108, 32, 76, 49, 32, 67, 97, 99, 104, 101, 0, 0, 7, 19, 32, 7, 1, 129, 1, 0, 129, 96, 128, 8, 0, 8, 0, 0, 5, 2, 7, 80, 114, 111, 99, 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0, 255, 7, 6, 197, 1, 255, 0, 0, 221, 20, 0, 221, 0, 3, 0, 31, 41, 197, 8, 77, 0, 7, 0, 31, 41, 197, 8, 67, 0, 0, 222, 70, 0, 222, 1, 8, 240, 0, 241, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 32, 0, 33, 0, 34, 0, 35, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 127, 4, 0, 127, 0, 0]	2	4	FALSE

and I have no idea what to do with this info.

Edited March 3, 2009 by Tripredacus
Added codebox

[Tripredacus]

http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/D...78E6/SMBIOS.doc

This is in German, but he code examples are in English.

You could also try dropping msinfo32 into your PE to see if it can read the information as well.

[Lasray]

You have pulled the raw data into a string by the looks of thinks.

Try using WMI which is available if the WMI package is installed into WinPE and to help here is a vb code snippet:

strServer = "."

Set objWMI = GetObject("winmgmts://" & strServer & "/root\WMI")
Set objInstances = objWMI.InstancesOf("MSSmBios_RawSMBiosTables",48)

On Error Resume Next
For Each objInstance in objInstances
	With objInstance
		WScript.Echo .Active
		WScript.Echo .DmiRevision
		WScript.Echo .InstanceName
		WScript.Echo .Size
		WScript.Echo Join(.SMBiosData, ", ")
		WScript.Echo .SmbiosMajorVersion
		WScript.Echo .SmbiosMinorVersion
		WScript.Echo .Used20CallingMethod
	End With
On Error Goto 0
Next

I hope this helps

Edited March 3, 2009 by Tripredacus
added CodeBox

[Tripredacus]

Yes, I believe this script is in the link I provided also.