CIM_ManagedSystemElement class

The base class for the system element hierarchy. Any distinguishable component of a system is a candidate for inclusion in this class.

Examples: software components, such as files; and devices, such as disk drives and controllers, and physical components such as chips and cards.

The following syntax is simplified from Managed Object Format (MOF) code and includes all of the inherited properties.

Syntax

[Abstract, AMENDMENT]
class CIM_ManagedSystemElement
{
  string   Caption;
  string   Description;
  datetime InstallDate;
  string   Name;
  string   Status;
};

Members

The CIM_ManagedSystemElement class has these types of members:

• Properties

Properties

The CIM_ManagedSystemElement class has these properties.

Caption

Data type: string

Access type: Read-only

Qualifiers: MaxLen (64)

The Caption property is a short textual description (one-line string) of the object.

Description

Data type: string

Access type: Read-only

The Description property provides a textual description of the object.

InstallDate

Data type: datetime

Access type: Read-only

Qualifiers: MappingStrings ("MIF.DMTF|ComponentID|001.5")

The InstallDate property is a datetime value indicating when the object was installed. A lack of a value does not indicate that the object is not installed.

Name

Data type: string

Access type: Read-only

Qualifiers: MaxLen (256)

The Name property defines the label by which the object is known. When subclassed, the Name property can be overridden to be a Key property.

Status

Data type: string

Access type: Read-only

Qualifiers: MaxLen (10)

The Status property is a string indicating the current status of the object. Various operational and non-operational statuses can be defined. Operational statuses are "OK", "Degraded" and "Pred Fail". "Pred Fail" indicates that an element may be functioning properly but predicting a failure in the near future. An example is a SMART-enabled hard drive. Non-operational statuses can also be specified. These are "Error", "Starting", "Stopping" and "Service". The latter, "Service", could apply during mirror-resilvering of a disk, reload of a user permissions list, or other administrative work. Not all such work is on-line, yet the managed element is neither "OK" nor in one of the other states.

("OK")

("Error")

("Degraded")

("Unknown")

("Pred Fail")

("Starting")

("Stopping")

("Service")

Requirements