Reference Guide

Property Description
Tag
An arbitrary string that uniquely identifies the
Physical Element and serves as the key of the
Element. The Tag property can contain information
such as asset tag or serial number data. The key for
PhysicalElement is placed very high in the object
hierarchy to independently identify the hardware
or entity, regardless of physical placement in or on
Cabinets, Adapters, and so on. For example, a
hotswappable or removable component can be
taken from its containing (scoping) Package and be
temporarily unused. The object still continues to
exist and can even be inserted into a different
scoping container. Therefore, the key for Physical
Element is an arbitrary string and is defined
independently of any placement or location-
oriented hierarchy.
VendorCompatibilityStrings
An array of strings that identify the components
that are compatible and can be inserted in a slot.
This allows vendors to provide clues to the system
administrators by providing sufficient information
to request the appropriate hardware that can
populate the slot. To ensure uniqueness within the
NameSpace, each value defined by the vendor for
use in the VendorCompatibilityStrings property
SHOULD be constructed using the following
'preferred' algorithm: : Where and are separated by
a colon ':', and where MUST include a copyrighted,
trademarked or otherwise unique name that is
owned by the business entity creating/defining the
InstanceID, or is a registered ID that is assigned to
the business entity by a recognized global
authority (This is similar to the _ structure of
Schema class names.) In addition, to ensure
uniqueness MUST NOT contain a colon ':'. When
using this algorithm, the first colon to appear in
InstanceID MUST appear between and . is chosen
by the business entity and SHOULD not be re-used
to identify different underlying (real-world)
elements.
DCIM_SerialPort
Property Description
BaseIOAddress
An integer value that represents the base I/O
address used by the serial port. Caption The
Caption property is a short textual description
(one- line string) of the object.
ConnectorType
ConnectorType is defined to force consistent
naming of the connector type property in
subclasses and to guarantee unique enum values
for all instances of SerialPort. When set to 1
(Other), related property OtherConnectorType
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