CIM29 Class Declaration
CIM_Account

Table of Contents:
Class Hierarchy
Class Attributes
Class Qualifiers
Properties
Methods
Associations in which the class can participate
Sub Profiling Summary

Class Hierarchy

CIM_Account --> CIM_LogicalElement --> CIM_ManagedSystemElement --> CIM_ManagedElement --> [top]

Class Attributes

Class Declaration Attributes
NameValue
SUPERCLASSCIM_LogicalElement
NAMECIM_Account

Class Qualifiers

Class CIM_Account Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
Versionstring2.8.0 CIM_Account
DescriptionstringCIM_Account is the information held by a SecurityService to track identity and privileges managed by that service. Common examples of an Account are the entries in a UNIX /etc/passwd file. Several kinds of security services use various information from those entries - the /bin/login program uses the account name ( ’ root ’ ) and hashed password to authenticate users, and the file service, for instance, uses the UserID field ( ’ 0 ’ ) and GroupID field ( ’ 0 ’ ) to record ownership and determine access control privileges on files in the file system. This class is defined so as to incorporate commonly-used LDAP attributes to permit implementations to easily derive this information from LDAP-accessible directories. The semantics of Account overlap with that of the class, CIM_Identity. However, aspects of Account - such as its specific tie to a System - are valuable and have been widely implemented. For this reason, the Account and Identity classes are associated using a subclass of LogicalIdentity (AccountIdentity), instead of deprecating the Account class in the CIM Schema. When an Account has been authenticated, the corresponding Identity ’ s TrustEstablished Boolean would be set to TRUE. Then, the Identity class can be used as defined for authorization purposes. CIM_Account
DescriptionstringCIM_LogicalElement is a base class for all the components of a System that represent abstract system components, such as Files, Processes, or LogicalDevices. CIM_LogicalElement
DescriptionstringCIM_ManagedSystemElement is the base class for the System Element hierarchy. Any distinguishable component of a System is a candidate for inclusion in this class. Examples of system components include: - software components such as application servers, databases, and applications - operating system components such as files, processes, and threads - device components such as disk drives, controllers, processors, and printers - physical components such as chips and cards. CIM_ManagedSystemElement
DescriptionstringManagedElement is an abstract class that provides a common superclass (or top of the inheritance tree) for the non-association classes in the CIM Schema. CIM_ManagedElement

Properties

Properties
NameTypeValueQualifiersClassOrigin
SystemCreationClassNamestring Key
Propagated
Description
MaxLen
CIM_Account
SystemNamestring Key
Propagated
Description
MaxLen
CIM_Account
CreationClassNamestring Key
Description
MaxLen
CIM_Account
Namestring Key
Override
Description
MaxLen
CIM_Account
UserIDstring Description
MaxLen
CIM_Account
ObjectClassstring[] Description CIM_Account
Descriptionsstring[] Description
MaxLen
CIM_Account
Hoststring[] Description CIM_Account
LocalityNamestring[] Description CIM_Account
OrganizationNamestring[] Required
Description
CIM_Account
OUstring[] Description CIM_Account
SeeAlsostring[] Description CIM_Account
UserCertificatestring[] Description
OctetString
CIM_Account
UserPasswordstring[] Description
OctetString
CIM_Account
InstallDatedatetime Description
MappingStrings
CIM_ManagedSystemElement
OperationalStatusuint16[] Description
ValueMap
Values
ArrayType
ModelCorrespondence
CIM_ManagedSystemElement
StatusDescriptionsstring[] Description
ArrayType
ModelCorrespondence
CIM_ManagedSystemElement
Statusstring Deprecated
Description
ValueMap
MaxLen
CIM_ManagedSystemElement
Captionstring Description
MaxLen
CIM_ManagedElement
Descriptionstring Description CIM_ManagedElement
ElementNamestring Description CIM_ManagedElement

Property Qualifiers

Property SystemCreationClassName Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
Keybooleantrue CIM_Account
PropagatedstringCIM_System.CreationClassName CIM_Account
DescriptionstringThe scoping System ’ s CCN. CIM_Account
MaxLenuint32256 CIM_Account

Property SystemName Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
Keybooleantrue CIM_Account
PropagatedstringCIM_System.Name CIM_Account
DescriptionstringThe scoping System ’ s Name. CIM_Account
MaxLenuint32256 CIM_Account

Property CreationClassName Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
Keybooleantrue CIM_Account
DescriptionstringCreationClassName 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. CIM_Account
MaxLenuint32256 CIM_Account

Property Name Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
Keybooleantrue CIM_Account
OverridestringName CIM_Account
DescriptionstringThe Name property defines the label by which the object is known. The value of this property may be set to be the same as that of the UserID property or, in the case of an LDAP-derived instance, the Name property value may be set to the distinguishedName of the LDAP-accessed object instance. CIM_Account
MaxLenuint321024 CIM_Account

Property UserID Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
DescriptionstringUserID is the value used by the SecurityService to represent identity. For an authentication service, the UserID may be the name of the user, or for an authorization service the value which serves as a handle to a mapping of the identity. CIM_Account
MaxLenuint32256 CIM_Account

Property ObjectClass Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
DescriptionstringIn the case of an LDAP-derived instance, the ObjectClass property value(s) may be set to the objectClass attribute values. CIM_Account

Property Descriptions Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
DescriptionstringThe Descriptions property values may contain human-readable descriptions of the object. In the case of an LDAP-derived instance, the description attribute may have multiple values that, therefore, cannot be placed in the inherited Description property. CIM_Account
MaxLenuint321024 CIM_Account

Property Host Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
DescriptionstringBased on RFC1274, the host name of the system(s) for which the account applies. The host name may be a fully-qualified DNS name or it may be an unqualified host name. CIM_Account

Property LocalityName Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
DescriptionstringThis property contains the name of a locality, such as a city, county or other geographic region. CIM_Account

Property OrganizationName Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
Requiredbooleantrue CIM_Account
DescriptionstringThe name of the organization related to the account. CIM_Account

Property OU Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
DescriptionstringThe name of an organizational unit related to the account. CIM_Account

Property SeeAlso Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
DescriptionstringIn the case of an LDAP-derived instance, the SeeAlso property specifies distinguished name of other Directory objects which may be other aspects (in some sense) of the same real world object. CIM_Account

Property UserCertificate Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
DescriptionstringBased on inetOrgPerson and for directory compatibility, the UserCertificate property may be used to specify a public key certificate for the person. CIM_Account
OctetStringbooleantrue CIM_Account

Property UserPassword Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
DescriptionstringIn the case of an LDAP-derived instance, the UserPassword property may contain an encrypted password used to access the person ’ s resources in a directory. CIM_Account
OctetStringbooleantrue CIM_Account

Property InstallDate Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
DescriptionstringA datetime value indicating when the object was installed. A lack of a value does not indicate that the object is not installed. CIM_ManagedSystemElement
MappingStringsstringMIF.DMTF|ComponentID|001.5 CIM_ManagedSystemElement

Property Name Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
DescriptionstringThe Name property defines the label by which the object is known. When subclassed, the Name property can be overridden to be a Key property. CIM_ManagedSystemElement
MaxLenuint321024 CIM_ManagedSystemElement

Property OperationalStatus Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
DescriptionstringIndicates the current status(es) of the element. Various health and operational statuses are defined. Many of the enumeration ’ s values are self- explanatory. However, a few are not and are described in more detail. " Stressed " indicates that the element is functioning, but needs attention. Examples of " Stressed " states are overload, overheated, etc. " Predictive Failure " indicates that an element is functioning nominally but predicting a failure in the near future. " In Service " describes an element being configured, maintained, cleaned, or otherwise administered. " No Contact " indicates that the monitoring system has knowledge of this element, but has never been able to establish communications with it. " Lost Communication " indicates that the ManagedSystem Element is known to exist and has been contacted successfully in the past, but is currently unreachable. " Stopped " and " Aborted " are similar, although the former implies a clean and orderly stop, while the latter implies an abrupt stop where the element ’ s state and configuration may need to be updated. " Dormant " indicates that the element is inactive or quiesced. " Supporting Entity in Error " describes that this element may be " OK " but that another element, on which it is dependent, is in error. An example is a network service or endpoint that cannot function due to lower layer networking problems. " Completed " indicates the element has completed its operation. This value should be combined with either OK, Error, or Degraded so that a client can till if the complete operation passed (Completed with OK), and failure (Completed with Error). Completed with Degraded would imply the operation finished, but did not complete OK or report an error. " Power Mode " indicates the element has additional power model information contained in the Associated PowerManagementService association. 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 since it required the DEPRECATED qualifier. Due to the widespread use of the existing Status property in management applications, it is strongly RECOMMENDED that providers/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 (since it is single-valued) SHOULD also provide the primary status of the element. CIM_ManagedSystemElement
ValueMapstring
[See below.]
CIM_ManagedSystemElement
ValuesstringUnknown
Other
OK
Degraded
Stressed
Predictive Failure
Error
Non-Recoverable Error
Starting
Stopping
Stopped
In Service
No Contact
Lost Communication
Aborted
Dormant
Supporting Entity in Error
Completed
Power Mode
DMTF Reserved
Vendor Reserved
CIM_ManagedSystemElement
ArrayTypestringIndexed CIM_ManagedSystemElement
ModelCorrespondencestringCIM_ManagedSystemElement.StatusDescriptions CIM_ManagedSystemElement

NameValue
0Unknown
1Other
2OK
3Degraded
4Stressed
5Predictive Failure
6Error
7Non-Recoverable Error
8Starting
9Stopping
10Stopped
11In Service
12No Contact
13Lost Communication
14Aborted
15Dormant
16Supporting Entity in Error
17Completed
18Power Mode
..DMTF Reserved
0x8000..Vendor Reserved
Property StatusDescriptions Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
DescriptionstringStrings describing the various OperationalStatus array values. For example, if " Stopping " is the value assigned to OperationalStatus, then this property may contain an explanation as to why an object is being stopped. Note that entries in this array are correlated with those at the same array index in OperationalStatus. CIM_ManagedSystemElement
ArrayTypestringIndexed CIM_ManagedSystemElement
ModelCorrespondencestringCIM_ManagedSystemElement.OperationalStatus CIM_ManagedSystemElement

Property Status Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
DescriptionstringA string indicating the current status of the object. Various operational and non-operational statuses are defined. This property is deprecated in lieu of OperationalStatus, which includes the same semantics in its enumeration. This change is made for 3 reasons: 1) Status is more correctly defined as an array. This overcomes the limitation of describing status via a single value, when it is really a multi-valued property (for example, an element may be OK AND Stopped. 2) A MaxLen of 10 is too restrictive and leads to unclear enumerated values. And, 3) The change to a uint16 data type was discussed when CIM V2.0 was defined. However, existing V1.0 implementations used the string property and did not want to modify their code. Therefore, Status was grandfathered into the Schema. Use of the Deprecated qualifier allows the maintenance of the existing property, but also permits an improved definition using OperationalStatus. CIM_ManagedSystemElement
ValueMapstring
[See below.]
CIM_ManagedSystemElement
MaxLenuint3210 CIM_ManagedSystemElement

NameValue
OK[none]
Error[none]
Degraded[none]
Unknown[none]
Pred Fail[none]
Starting[none]
Stopping[none]
Service[none]
Stressed[none]
NonRecover[none]
No Contact[none]
Lost Comm[none]
Stopped[none]
Property Caption Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
DescriptionstringThe Caption property is a short textual description (one- line string) of the object. CIM_ManagedElement
MaxLenuint3264 CIM_ManagedElement

Property Description Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
DescriptionstringThe Description property provides a textual description of the object. CIM_ManagedElement

Property ElementName Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
DescriptionstringA user-friendly name for the object. This property allows each instance to define a user-friendly name IN ADDITION TO its key properties/identity data, and description information. Note that ManagedSystemElement ’ s Name property is also defined as a user-friendly name. But, it is often subclassed to be a Key. It is not reasonable that the same property can convey both identity and a user friendly name, without inconsistencies. Where Name exists and is not a Key (such as for instances of LogicalDevice), the same information MAY be present in both the Name and ElementName properties. CIM_ManagedElement

Methods

Method Qualifiers

Parameters

Parameter Qualifiers

Associations this class can participate in

Association
Class
Reference
Class
Role
CIM_UsersAccountCIM_AccountAntecedent
CIM_AccountMapsToAccountCIM_AccountAntecedent
CIM_AccountMapsToAccountCIM_AccountDependent
CIM_SecurityServiceUsesAccountCIM_AccountAntecedent
CIM_ManagesAccountCIM_AccountDependent
CIM_AccountOnSystemCIM_AccountPartComponent
CIM_AccountIdentityCIM_AccountSystemElement
CIM_ResidesOnExtentCIM_LogicalElementDependent
CIM_OperationLogCIM_LogicalElementDependent
CIM_LogicalElementUnitOfWorkDefCIM_LogicalElementAntecedent
CIM_LogicalElementPerformsUoWCIM_LogicalElementAntecedent
CIM_AllocatedFromStoragePoolCIM_LogicalElementDependent
CIM_AssociatedMemoryCIM_LogicalElementDependent
CIM_DiagnosticTestForMSECIM_ManagedSystemElementDependent
CIM_UseOfLogCIM_ManagedSystemElementDependent
CIM_SystemComponentCIM_ManagedSystemElementPartComponent
CIM_RedundancyComponentCIM_ManagedSystemElementPartComponent
CIM_CollectedMSEsCIM_ManagedSystemElementMember
CIM_ActsAsSpareCIM_ManagedSystemElementSpare
CIM_ElementSettingCIM_ManagedSystemElementElement
CIM_ElementConfigurationCIM_ManagedSystemElementElement
CIM_DiagnosticResultForMSECIM_ManagedSystemElementSystemElement
CIM_DependencyCIM_ManagedElementAntecedent
CIM_DependencyCIM_ManagedElementDependent
CIM_ConcreteDependencyCIM_ManagedElementAntecedent
CIM_ConcreteDependencyCIM_ManagedElementDependent
CIM_HostedDependencyCIM_ManagedElementAntecedent
CIM_HostedDependencyCIM_ManagedElementDependent
CIM_ScopedSettingCIM_ManagedElementAntecedent
CIM_ProvidesServiceToElementCIM_ManagedElementDependent
CIM_ElementSoftwareIdentityCIM_ManagedElementDependent
CIM_RecordAppliesToElementCIM_ManagedElementDependent
CIM_AuthenticationTargetCIM_ManagedElementDependent
CIM_ElementAsUserCIM_ManagedElementAntecedent
CIM_AuthorizationSubjectCIM_ManagedElementDependent
CIM_AuthorizationTargetCIM_ManagedElementDependent
CIM_MetricDefForMECIM_ManagedElementAntecedent
CIM_MetricForMECIM_ManagedElementAntecedent
CIM_ComponentCIM_ManagedElementGroupComponent
CIM_ComponentCIM_ManagedElementPartComponent
CIM_ConcreteComponentCIM_ManagedElementGroupComponent
CIM_ConcreteComponentCIM_ManagedElementPartComponent
CIM_LogicalIdentityCIM_ManagedElementSystemElement
CIM_LogicalIdentityCIM_ManagedElementSameElement
CIM_ConcreteIdentityCIM_ManagedElementSystemElement
CIM_ConcreteIdentityCIM_ManagedElementSameElement
CIM_SynchronizedCIM_ManagedElementSystemElement
CIM_SynchronizedCIM_ManagedElementSyncedElement
CIM_StorageSynchronizedCIM_ManagedElementSystemElement
CIM_StorageSynchronizedCIM_ManagedElementSyncedElement
CIM_ServiceAvailableToElementCIM_ManagedElementUserOfService
CIM_ServiceAffectsElementCIM_ManagedElementAffectedElement
CIM_SAPAvailableForElementCIM_ManagedElementManagedElement
CIM_ElementLocationCIM_ManagedElementElement
CIM_MemberOfCollectionCIM_ManagedElementMember
CIM_MemberPrincipalCIM_ManagedElementMember
CIM_ElementInPolicyRoleCollectionCIM_ManagedElementMember
CIM_ElementCapabilitiesCIM_ManagedElementManagedElement
CIM_ElementSettingDataCIM_ManagedElementManagedElement
CIM_ElementProfileCIM_ManagedElementManagedElement
CIM_ElementStatisticalDataCIM_ManagedElementManagedElement
CIM_StatisticsCIM_ManagedElementElement
CIM_ParameterValueSourcesCIM_ManagedElementValueSource
CIM_ParametersForMethodCIM_ManagedElementTheMethod
CIM_OwningJobElementCIM_ManagedElementOwningElement
CIM_AffectedJobElementCIM_ManagedElementAffectedElement
CIM_ElementConformsToProfileCIM_ManagedElementManagedElement
CIM_IdentityContextCIM_ManagedElementElementProvidingContext
CIM_AssignedIdentityCIM_ManagedElementManagedElement
CIM_ElementSecuritySensitivityCIM_ManagedElementManagedElement
CIM_AuthorizedSubjectCIM_ManagedElementPrivilegedElement
CIM_AuthorizedTargetCIM_ManagedElementTargetElement
CIM_PolicySetAppliesToElementCIM_ManagedElementManagedElement