Reference Guide

Property Description
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.
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
This property is provided to compare the last requested
and current enabled or disabled states. Note that 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.
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