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Table 32. Sensor (continued)
Property Description
OperationalStatus
Indicates the current statuses of the element. Various operational statuses are
defined. Many of the enumeration's values are self-explanatory. However, a few are
not and are described here in more detail.
Stressed, Predictive Failure, In Service, No Contact, Lost Communication,
Stopped and Aborted are similar, although the former , while the latter Dormant,
Supporting Entity in Error, Completed, Power Mode, OperationalStatus
replaces the Status property on ManagedSystemElement to provide a consistent
approach to enumerations, to address implementation needs for an array property,
and to provide a migration path from today's environment to the future. This change
was not made earlier because it required the deprecated qualifier. Due to the
widespread use of the existing Status property in management applications, it is
strongly recommended that providers or instrumentation provide both the Status
and OperationalStatus properties. Further, the first value of OperationalStatus
should contain the primary status for the element. When instrumented, Status
(because it is single-valued) should also provide the primary status of the element.
Possible values are:
● 0 = Unknown
● 1 = Other
● 2 = OK
● 3 = Degraded
● 4 = Stressed — Indicates that the element is functioning, but needs attention.
Examples of Stressed states are overload, overheated, and so on.
● 5 = Predictive Failure — Indicates that an element is functioning nominally but
predicting a failure in the near future.
● 6 = Error
● 7 = Non-Recoverable Error
● 8 = Starting
● 9 = Stopping
● 10 = Stopped — Implies a clean and orderly stop.
● 11 = In Service — Describes an element being configured, maintained, cleaned, or
otherwise administered.
● 12 = No Contact — Indicates that the monitoring system has knowledge of this
element, but has never been able to establish communications with it.
● 13 = Lost Communication — Indicates that the ManagedSystem Element is
known to exist and has been contacted successfully in the past, but is currently
unreachable.
● 14 = Aborted — Implies an abrupt stop where the state and configuration of the
element may need to be updated.
● 15 = Dormant — Indicates that the element is inactive or quiesced.
● 16 = Supporting Entity in Error — Indicates that this element may be OK but that
another element, on which it is dependent, is in error. An example is a network
service or endpoint that cannot function due to lower-layer networking problems.
● 17 = Completed — Indicates that the element has completed its operation. This
value should be combined with either OK, Error, or Degraded so that a client can
tell if the complete operation Completed with OK (passed), Completed with Error
(failed), or Completed with Degraded (the operation finished, but it did not
complete OK or did not report an error).
● 18 = Power Mode — Indicates that the element has additional power model
information contained in the Associated PowerManagementService association.
● .. = DMTF Reserved
● 0x8000.. = Vendor Reserved
PossibleStates
Enumerates the string outputs of the Sensor. For example, a Switch Sensor may
output the states On, or Off. Another implementation of the Switch may output the
states Open, and Close. Another example is a NumericSensor supporting thresholds.
This Sensor can report the states like Normal, Upper Fatal, Lower Non-Critical,
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