CIM Reference Guide

Parent Classes

Most classes in the dccim32 provider document both a Class Name and a Parent Class property. The

parent class is the class from which any given class inherits its core properties. For example, the

CIM_Controller class has the CIM_LogicalDevice class as its parent, and has various types of controllers

(CIM_ParallelController, CIM_SerialController) as its children.

Classes That Describe Relationships

Classes that derive from CIM_Dependency have CIM_Dependency as their parent class, but they are

documented in terms of antecedent and dependent elements in a relationship rather than in terms of

common properties. Consider the following relationship between two CIM_ManagedSystemElements:

Antecedent CIM_PackageCurrentSensor

Dependent CIM_PhysicalPackage

The CIM_PackageCurrentSensor class monitors an entire physical package, such as all the components

contained in a given system chassis. The CIM_PhysicalPackage class is dependent on the

CIM_PackageCurrentSensor class for this monitoring function.

Dell-Defined Classes

Server Administrator has extended some CIM classes and has created new classes to assist in managing

systems and their components. In this document, the illustrations of the classes created and populated by

Dell are represented by an orange circle icon.

Common Properties of Classes

Many classes have properties such as Caption, Description, and CreationClassName. Common Properties

of Classes defines properties that have the same meaning in every class that has this property and are

defined more than once in this guide.

Table 1. Common Properties of Classes

Property Description Data Type

Caption Describes the object using a

short textual description (one‑line

string).

string

CreationClassName 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.

string

CSCreationClassName Indicates the computer system’s

creation class name.

string

CSName Indicates the computer system’s

name.

string