Reference Guide

Property Description
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.
If knowledge of the last RequestedState is not supported for the
EnabledLogicalElement, the property is NULL or has the value 12 Not
Applicable.
TransitioningToState
Indicates the target state to which the instance is transitioning.
• 0 = Unknown
• 2 = Enabled
• 3 = Disabled
• 4 = Shut Down
• 5 = No Change — ndicates that no transition is in progress.
• 6 = Offline
• 7 = Test
• 8 = Defer
• 9 = Quiesce
• 10 = Reboot
• 11 = Reset
• 12 = Not Applicable — Indicates the implementation does not
support representing ongoing transitions.
A value other than 5 or 12 identifies the state to which the element is
in the process of transitioning.
DCIM_OperatingSystem
Property Description
CreationClassName
Indicates the name of the class or the subclass used in the creation of
an instance. When used with the other key properties of this class,
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