Reference Guide

Property Description
of its abilities. For example, the element may not be operating at optimal
performance or it may be reporting recoverable errors.
• 15 = Minor failure - All functionality is available but some may be
degraded.
• 20 = Major failure - The element is failing. It is possible that some or all
of the functionality of this component is degraded or not working.
• 25 = Critical failure - The element is non-functional and recovery may not
be possible.
• 30 = Non-recoverable error - The element has completely failed, and
recovery is not possible. All functionality provided by this element has
been lost.
• .. = DMTF Reserved
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.
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