Reference Guide

Property Description
• 1 = Other
• 2 = Ethernet
• 3 = IB
• 4 = FC
• 5 = FDDI
• 6 = ATM
• 7 = Token Ring
• 8 = Frame Relay
• 9 = Infrared
• 10 = Bluetooth
• 11 = Wireless LAN
Name
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.
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. See the EnabledState property
description for explanations of the values in the RequestedState
enumeration. Unknown (0) indicates the last requested state for the
element is unknown.
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.
Possible values are:
• 0 = 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.
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