Hardware components

The Hardware components tab shows the list of hardware devices connected to the host.

Figure 1. Hardware components

Hardware components tab of the This asset page showing a searchable list of detected devices and detailed information for a selected firmware device, including hardware ID, vendor, status, module type, and parent ID

The Hardware components tab displays the hardware devices detected on the host. Selecting a device in the list shows its detailed properties in the detail panel, which includes the following fields:

Friendly name

The human-readable name of the device.

Device type

The category of the device, for example, Disk drives or Network adapters.

Description

A description of the device as reported by the operating system (OS).

Vendor

The manufacturer of the device.

Hardware ID

The hardware identifier string used by the OS to match the device against drivers.

Physical object name

The physical object name of the device in the kernel namespace.

Status

The operational status of the device.

Can be disabled

Indicates whether the device can be disabled.

Can be enabled

Indicates whether the device can be enabled.

Can be ejected

Indicates whether the device can be safely ejected.

Parent ID

The instance identifier of the parent device in the hardware tree.

Location information

A text string identifying the physical location of the device as reported by the bus driver, for example, Port_#0001.Hub_#0002 for universal serial bus (USB) devices.

Location paths

One or more structured paths that trace the device's position through the Windows device tree, from the peripheral component interconnect (PCI) root down to the specific port. For example, PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1400)#USBROOT(0)#USB(1).