Retreiving monitor serial numbers

[Bjorn Rasmussen]

Using HP Systems Insight Manager with WBEM, I don't see the monitors' serial numbers. How do I retreive those?

[David Claypool]

Since HP SIM was primarily designed as a server management system, it doesn't do a number of things that are related to clients. Since rack servers are typically connected to KVM switches, gathering information on monitors would only associate a monitor that is connected to a given server at that time, and the next time it would/could be somewhere else, giving the appearance that the monitor was floating from machine to machine. For that reason, HP SIM is not the best choice for client management. Check out HP Client Manager and its connector to HP SIM: http://www.hp.com/go/easydeploy