Package com.ferrumx.system.hardware

Class Win32_BIOS

java.lang.Object

com.ferrumx.system.hardware.Win32_BIOS

public class Win32_BIOS
extends Object

This class contains methods that query the Win32_BIOS class of WMI and fetch BIOS information.

Fetches the following properties and their values: Name, Caption, Manufacturer, ReleaseDate, SMBIOSPResent, Status, Version, CurrentLanguage, SMBIOSBIOSVersion

Author:

Egg-03

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static Map<String,String>	getPrimaryBIOS()	Fetches Primary BIOS Information (If your motherboard has multiple BIOSes, the Main BIOS information will always be fetched).

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Details

getPrimaryBIOS

public static Map<String,String> getPrimaryBIOS()
                                         throws IOException,
IndexOutOfBoundsException,
ShellException,
InterruptedException

Fetches Primary BIOS Information (If your motherboard has multiple BIOSes, the Main BIOS information will always be fetched). Internally calls CIM_ML.getPropertiesAndTheirValuesWhere(String, String, String, String) with the parameters being (classname, "PrimaryBIOS", "True", attributes);

Returns:

a Map containing the properties and their values mentioned in the class description, as key-value pairs

Throws:

IOException - re-throws the exception thrown by CIM_ML.getPropertiesAndTheirValuesWhere(String, String, String, String) when there are I/O Errors during streaming of data from and to Powershell and other generated files

IndexOutOfBoundsException - re-throws the exception thrown by CIM_ML.getPropertiesAndTheirValuesWhere(String, String, String, String) when there is a parsing error of data fetched from Windows Powershell

ShellException - if any internal command used in the powershell throws errors

InterruptedException - if the thread waiting for the process to exit, gets interrupted. When catching this exception, you may re-throw it's interrupted status by using Thread.currentThread().interrupt();