Concept Guide

Profile Name Description
Software Inventory The Dell Software Inventory Profile extends the management capabilities of referencing profiles by
adding the capability to represent the software inventory of system.
Software Update
The Software Update Profile extends the management capabilities of referencing profiles by adding the
capability to update platform firmware or software.
DCIM_SoftwareInstallationService: installfromRepository and DCIM_SoftwareInstallationService:
GetRepoBasedUpdateList allows updates from update repository.
Solid-state Drive (SSD) wear-level odometer: Ability to provide lifetime/wear out of SSD drives attached
to PERC controller.
DIF drive reporting: PowerEdge RAID Controller 9 (PERC 9) is adding support for PI (Protection
Information) drives. These protection fields are known as DIF (Data Integrity Fields) and drives
supporting PI are also known as DIF drives. The data integrity field provides additional data robustness by
providing CRC such as data validation at every level in the RAID stack.
System Info The DCIM System Info Profile describes the properties and interfaces for running system management
tasks related to the management of the host system.
System QuickSync The DCIM System QuickSync profile document describes the properties and interfaces used for system
management tasks related to the management of QuickSync or NFC devices within a system.
USB device The DCIM USB Device profile describes the properties and interfaces for the system management tasks
related to the USB devices within a system.
Video The DCIM Video Profile describes the properties and interfaces for running system management tasks
related to the management of video controllers within a system.
Virtual Media The DCIM Virtual Media Profile describes the properties for running system management tasks related
to managing the Virtual Media functionality.
WSMAN MOF WSDL and XSD API definitions
A complement to the profile documentation is the Managed Object File (MOF) that documents the class implementation of the Dell-
specific CIM classes. Web Service Description Language (WSDL) and XML Schema Definition (XSD) files describe the resulting
functionality.
Managed object file
The Common Information Model (CIM) is an open standard that defines how managed elements in an IT environment are
represented as a common set of objects and relationships between them. This is intended to allow consistent management of these
managed elements, independent of their manufacturer or provider.
Files that contain the normative description for classes, properties, and methods are contained within the Managed Object File
(MOF).
NOTE: To access the MOFs, on the Dell TechCenter (delltechcenter.com/LC) page, under Reference Specifications, click
MOFs.
Web service description language
The Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is an XML-based language that is used for describing the functionality offered by
a web service. A WSDL description of a web service (also referred to as a WSDL file) provides a machine-readable description of
how the service can be called, what parameters it expects, and what data structures it returns.
XML schema description
An XML schema (also known as XSD) is a description of a type of XML document, typically expressed in terms of constraints on the
structure and content of documents of that type, above and beyond the basic syntactical constraints imposed by XML itself. These
constraints are generally expressed using some combination of grammatical rules governing the order of elements.
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