Reference Guide

Property Description
placement in or on Cabinets, Adapters, etc. For example, a
hot swappable or removable component may be taken
from its containing (scoping) Package and be temporarily
unused. The object still continues to exist - and may even
be inserted into a different scoping container. Therefore,
the key for physical element is an arbitrary string and is
defined independently of any placement or location-
oriented hierarchy.
Dell_Fan
Property Description
ActiveCooling
Active Cooling is a boolean indicating that the Cooling
Device provides active (as opposed to passive) cooling.
Caption
The caption of the device.
CoolingDeviceType
Defines the type of Cooling Device.
Possible values are:
• 1 = Other
• 2 = Unknown
• 3 = Fan
• 4 = Centrifugal Blower
• 5 = Chip Fan
• 6 = Cabinet Fan
• 7 = Power Supply Fan
• 8 = Heat Pipe
• 9 = Integrated Refrigeration
• 32 = Active Cooling
• 33 = Passive Cooling
CreationClassName
Creation class name indicates the name of the class or the
subclass used in the creation of an instance. When used
with the other key properties of this class, this property
allows all instances of this class and its subclasses to be
uniquely identified.
Description
A short description of the fan.
DesiredSpeed
Desired Speed is the currently requested fan speed,
defined in Revolutions per Minute, when a variable speed
fan is supported (Variable Speed boolean = TRUE). The
current speed is determined via a sensor
(CIM_Tachometer) that is associated with the Fan using
the CIM_AssociatedSensor relationship.
DeviceID
An address or other identifying information to uniquely
name the logical device.
Name
The Name property defines the label by which the object
is known. When subclassed, the Name property can be
overridden to be a Key property.
Status
This property indicates the current status of the logical
device.
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