Reference Guide

Property Description
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
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.
PossibleStates
Enumerates the string outputs of the Sensor.
Example 1 - A "Switch" Sensor may output the states "On",
or "Off". Another implementation of the Switch may output
the states "Open", and "Close".
Example 2 - is a NumericSensor supporting thresholds.
This Sensor can report the states like "Normal", "Upper
Non-Critical", "Lower Non-Critical", etc. A NumericSensor
that does not publish readings and thresholds, but stores
this data internally, can still report its states.
RateUnits
Specifies if the units returned by this Sensor are rate
units. All the values returned by this Sensor are
represented in the units obtained by (BaseUnits * 10
raised to the power of the UnitModifier). This is true
unless this property (RateUnits) has a value different than
"None". For example, if BaseUnits is Volts and the
UnitModifier is -6, then the units of the values returned
are MicroVolts. But, if the RateUnits property is set to a
value other than "None", then the units are further
qualified as rate units. In the above example, if RateUnits
is set to "Per Second", then the values returned by the
Sensor are in MicroVolts/Second. The units apply to all
numeric properties of the Sensor, unless explicitly
overridden by the Units qualifier. Any implementation of
CurrentReading should be qualified with either a Counter
or a Gauge qualifier, depending on the characteristics of
the sensor being modeled.
Possible values are:
• 0 = None
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