Reference Guide

Property Description Supported
Operating
System(s)
Example 1 - A Switch Sensor may output the states On, or O. Another implementation of
the Switch may output the states Open, and Close.
Example 2 - Is a NumericSensor supporting thresholds. This Sensor can report the states
like Normal, Upper Non-Critical, Lower Non-Critical, and so on. A NumericSensor that
does not publish readings and thresholds, but stores this data internally, can still report its
states.
RateUnits
Species if the units returned by this Sensor are rate units. All the values returned by this
Sensor are represented in the units obtained by (BaseUnits * 10 raised to the power of the
UnitModier). This is true unless this property (RateUnits) has a value dierent than None.
For example, if BaseUnits is Volts and the UnitModier is -6, then the units of the values
returned are MicroVolts. But, if the RateUnits property is set to a value other than None,
then the units are further qualied as rate units. In the above example, if RateUnits is set to
Per Second, then the values returned by the Sensor are in MicroVolts/Second. The units
apply to all numeric properties of the Sensor, unless explicitly overridden by the Units
qualier. Any implementation of CurrentReading should be qualied with either a Counter
or a Gauge qualier, depending on the characteristics of the sensor being modeled.
Possible values are:
• 0 = None
• 1 = Per MicroSecond
• 2 = Per MilliSecond
• 3 = Per Second
• 4 = Per Minute
• 5 = Per Hour
• 6 = Per Day
• 7 = Per Week
• 8 = Per Month
• 9 = Per Year
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RequestedState
An integer enumeration that indicates the last requested or desired state for the element,
irrespective of the mechanism through which it was requested. The actual state of the
element is represented by EnabledState. This property is provided to compare the last
requested and current enabled or disabled states. Note that when EnabledState is set to 5
(Not Applicable), then this property has no meaning. Refer to the EnabledState property
description for explanations of the values in the RequestedState enumeration.
NOTE: The value No Change (5) has been deprecated instead of indicating the
last requested state is Unknown (0). If the last requested or desired state is
unknown, RequestedState should have the value Unknown (0), but may have the
value No Change (5). Oine (6) indicates that the element has been requested
to transition to the Enabled but Oine EnabledState.
There are two new values in RequestedState that build on the statuses of
EnabledState. These are Reboot (10) and Reset (11).
Shut Down requests an orderly transition to the Disabled state, and may involve removing
power, to completely erase any existing state. The Disabled state requests an immediate
disabling of the element, such that it will not execute or accept any commands or
processing requests.
This property is set as the result of a method invocation (such as Start or StopService on
CIM_Service), or can be overridden and dened as WRITEable in a subclass. The method
approach is considered superior to a WRITEable property, because it allows an explicit
invocation of the operation and the return of a result code.
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Windows, Linux
126 Dell Command | Monitor10.1.0 classes and properties