Reference Guide

Property Description
Name
The Name property uniquely identifies the Service and provides an
indication of the functionality that is managed. This functionality is
described in more detail in the Description property of the object.
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.
Possible values are:
• 0 = Unknown — Indicates the last requested state for the element
is unknown.
• 2 = Enabled
• 3 = Disabled
• 4 = Shut Down
• 5 = No Change
• 6 = Offline — Indicates that the element has been requested to
transition to the Enabled but Offline EnabledState.
• 7 = Test
• 8 = Deferred
• 9 = Quiesce
• 10 = Reboot — Refers to doing a Shut Down and then moving to
an Enabled state.
• 11 = Reset — Indicates that the element is first Disabled and then
Enabled.
• 12 = Not Applicable
• .. = DMTF Reserved
• 32768..65535 = Vendor Reserved
NOTE: 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). 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 defined 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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