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10 No Restrictions | Filter Dialects |
Associators operation is used to enumerate CIM Objects (Classes or Instances) that are associated to a
particular source CIM Object. The following example indicates how the association classes of a source CIM
Object, DCIM_ComputerSystem can be derived using a WinRM command.
winrm e http://schemas.dell.com/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/* -dialect:association
-associations -
filter:{object=DCIM_ComputerSystem?__cimnamespace=root/dcim+CreationClassName=DC
IM_ComputerSystem+Name=srv:system} -u:<user> -p:<pwd> -r:https://<ip>/wsman -
encoding:utf-8 -a:basic -SkipCNcheck –SkipCAcheck
This command here provides all the associations (an association is a pair of related or associated EPRs of
instance) which have one of the instances matching the filter condition. The value of the filter, is the
selector set for an instance of DCIM_ComputerSystem and may be obtained by enumerating the End
Point Reference (EPR) of DCIM_ComputerSystem.
The above example will return the EPRs of all the instances which are associated with the
ComputerSystem class instance. Output of few instances from multiple instances is given here.
DCIM_LCUseOfLog
Antecedent
EndpointReference
Address = http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing/role/anonymous
ReferenceParameters
ResourceURI = http://schemas.dell.com/wbem/wscim/1/cim-
schema/2/DCIM_LCRecordLog
SelectorSet
Selector: InstanceID = DCIM:LifeCycleLog
Selector: __cimnamespace = root/dcim
Dependent
EndpointReference
Address = http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing/role/anonymous
ReferenceParameters
ResourceURI = http://schemas.dell.com/wbem/wscim/1/cim-
schema/2/DCIM_ComputerSystem
SelectorSet
Selector: Name = srv:system
Selector: CreationClassName = DCIM_ComputerSystem
Selector: __cimnamespace = root/dcim
DCIM_SELUseOfLog
Antecedent
EndpointReference
Address = http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing/role/anonymous
ReferenceParameters
ResourceURI = http://schemas.dell.com/wbem/wscim/1/cim-
schema/2/DCIM_SELRecordLog
SelectorSet