CIM_ManagedSystemElement class

CIM_ManagedSystemElement is the base class for the System Element hierarchy. Membership Criteria: 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, UUID("{C9D86C80-ED46-4377-8360-FC9B8A9F0C64}"), 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)

A short textual description (one-line string) of the object.

Description

Data type: string

Access type: Read-only

Provides a textual description of the object.

InstallDate

Data type: datetime

Access type: Read-only

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

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)

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)

A string indicating the current status of the object. Various operational and non-operational statuses are defined. Operational statuses are "OK", "Degraded", "Stressed" and "Pred Fail". "Stressed" indicates that the Element is functioning, but needs attention. Examples of "Stressed" states are overload, overheated, etc. The condition "Pred Fail" (failure predicted) indicates that an Element is 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", "NonRecover", "Starting", "Stopping" and "Service". "NonRecover" indicates that a non-recoverable error has occurred. "Service" describes an Element being configured, maintained or cleaned, or otherwise administered. This status could apply during mirror-resilvering of a disk, reload of a user permissions list, or other administrative task. Not all such work is on-line, yet the Element is neither "OK" nor in one of the other states.

("OK")

("Error")

("Degraded")

("Unknown")

("Pred Fail")

("Starting")

("Stopping")

("Service")

("Stressed")

("NonRecover")

Requirements

Minimum supported client	None supported
Minimum supported server	Windows Server 2008
Namespace	Root\MSCluster
MOF	ClusWMI.mof
DLL	ClusWMI.dll