Reference Guide

Property Description
• 10 = Starting - Indicates that the element is in the process of going to an Enabled state.
New requests are queued.
• 11..32767 = DMTF Reserved
• 32768..65535 = Vendor Reserved
For example, shutting down (value=4) and starting (value=10) are transient states between
enabled and disabled.
RequestedState
An integer enumeration that indicates the last requested or desired state for the element,
irrespective of the mechanism through which it was requested. The actual state of the element
is represented by EnabledState. This property is provided to compare the last requested and
current enabled or disabled states.
Possible values are:
• 0 = Unknown - Indicates the last requested state for the element is unknown.
• 2 = Enabled
• 3 = Disabled
• 4 = Shut Down
• 5 = No Change
• 6 = Offline - Indicates that the element has been requested to transition to the Enabled
but Offline EnabledState.
• 7 = Test
• 8 = Deferred
• 9 = Quiesce
• 10 = Reboot - Refers to doing a "Shut Down" and then moving to an "Enabled" state.
• 11 = Reset - Indicates that the element is first "Disabled" and then "Enabled".
• 12 = Not Applicable
• .. = DMTF Reserved
• 32768..65535 = Vendor Reserved
NOTE: When EnabledState is set to 5 ("Not Applicable"), then this property has no meaning.
Refer to the EnabledState property description for explanations of the values in the
RequestedState enumeration.
NOTE: The value "No Change" (5) has been deprecated instead of indicating the last
requested state is "Unknown" (0). If the last requested or desired state is unknown,
RequestedState should have the value "Unknown" (0), but may have the value "No Change"
(5).
There are two new values in RequestedState that build on the statuses of EnabledState. These
are "Reboot" (10) and "Reset" (11).
Shut Down requests an orderly transition to the Disabled state, and may involve removing
power, to completely erase any existing state. The Disabled state requests an immediate
disabling of the element, such that it will not execute or accept any commands or processing
requests.
This property is set as the result of a method invocation (such as Start or StopService on
CIM_Service), or can be overridden and defined as WRITEable in a subclass. The method
approach is considered superior to a WRITEable property, because it allows an explicit
invocation of the operation and the return of a result code.
If knowledge of the last RequestedState is not supported for the EnabledLogicalElement, the
property is NULL or has the value 12 "Not Applicable".
SystemCreationClas
sName
The CreationClassName of the scoping system.
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