Reference Guide

Introduction

This reference guide documents the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Common Information Model (CIM) provider

contained in the Management Object File (MOF) dccim32.mof.

CIM provides a conceptual model for describing manageable objects in a systems management environment. CIM is a

modeling tool rather than a programming language. CIM provides the structure for organizing objects into a model of a

managed environment. For modeling a managed environment, CIM makes available a set of abstract and concrete

classes of objects. These classes model the basic characteristics of systems, networks, and applications, as well as

groupings of management-related data.

For more information about CIM, see the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) website at dmtf.org and the

Microsoft website at microsoft.com.

Server Administrator

Server Administrator provides a suite of systems management information for keeping track of your networked systems.

In addition to providing systems management agents that are independent of the management console, Server

Administrator supports these systems management standards: CIM and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).

In addition to supporting systems management industry standards, Server Administrator provides additional systems

management information about the specific components of your Dell system.

Whats New in This Release

For a list of platforms, Operating Systems, and Browsers support added and deprecated, refer to the

Dell OpenManage

Server Administrator Version 7.3 User's Guide and Dell Systems Software Support Matrix Version 7.3

at dell.com/

support/manuals.

Documenting CIM Classes and Their Properties

The Dell CIM provider extends support to Dell-specific software and hardware components. The Dell MOF defines the

classes for the Dell CIM provider. All of the supported classes and properties in the MOF are documented in this guide.

The following subsections define some of the basic building blocks of CIM classes that are used in describing the

dccim32 provider name. These subsections also explain how the elements used in describing these classes are

organized. This section does not document the entire CIM schema, but only those classes and properties supported by

the dccim32 provider. The list of properties for each supported class varies greatly.

The property values being presented could be NULL or empty string on some systems, although in general, some non-

empty values can be expected. Key properties (listed below) always carry non-empty values. It is recommended that you

use only the following properties as key attributes:

• CIM_PhysicalElement: CreationClassName, Tag

• CIM_System: CreationClassName, Name

• CIM_LogicalDevice: SystemCreationClassName, SystemName, CreationClassName, DeviceID

• CIM_Dependency: Antecedent, Dependent