
Matt.Chambers asked a question.
I was wondering if anyone had insight into how an agent scan gets information to determine if a computer is portable or not?
I've got a situation where I have a range of computers where the agent scan is giving us mixed results. Hardware is the same, build process is the same, snowagent.config files are the same, but scans vary is some reporting the computer as portable and others not.
We're currently on 6.5 agent. Snow Support have given us a newer agent to test but there's a lot of effort for us to roll this out so was wondering if anyone else had had this experience?
Thanks
Matt
Think we've maybe found it relates to the BIOS version - a WMI query has validated this
Hi Matt,
The following link may provide some further information: https://community.flexera.com/s/article/SupportWindows10laptopsnotebookstabletsnotmarkedasPortable-SnowInventoryWindowsAgent-v2
Regards,
Jordan
Windows
WMI Call against the ChasisType (view link Jordan posted)
MacOS
I believe, unless it's changed, it goes off the Model Identifier in SPHardwareDataType and checks if it contains 'Book', because a non-portable Mac would never have Book in it's model :-)