CIM211 Class Declaration
CIM_PolicyGroup

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

Class Hierarchy

CIM_PolicyGroup --> CIM_PolicySet --> CIM_Policy --> CIM_ManagedElement --> [top]

Class Attributes

Class Declaration Attributes
NameValue
SUPERCLASSCIM_PolicySet
NAMECIM_PolicyGroup

Class Qualifiers

Class CIM_PolicyGroup Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
Versionstring2.6.0 CIM_PolicyGroup
DescriptionstringAn aggregation of PolicySet instances (PolicyGroups and/or PolicyRules) that have the same decision strategy and inherit policy roles. PolicyGroup instances are defined and named relative to the CIM_System that provides their context. CIM_PolicyGroup
DescriptionstringPolicySet is an abstract class that represents a set of policies that form a coherent set. The set of contained policies has a common decision strategy and a common set of policy roles (defined via the PolicySetInRole Collection association). Subclasses include PolicyGroup and PolicyRule. CIM_PolicySet
DescriptionstringAn abstract class defining the common properties of the policy managed elements derived from CIM_Policy. The subclasses are used to create rules and groups of rules that work together to form a coherent set of policies within an administrative domain or set of domains. CIM_Policy
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_PolicyGroup
SystemNamestring Key
Propagated
Description
MaxLen
CIM_PolicyGroup
CreationClassNamestring Key
Description
MaxLen
CIM_PolicyGroup
PolicyGroupNamestring Key
Description
MaxLen
CIM_PolicyGroup
PolicyDecisionStrategyuint16 Description
ValueMap
Values
CIM_PolicySet
PolicyRolesstring[] Deprecated
Description
CIM_PolicySet
Enableduint161 Description
ValueMap
Values
CIM_PolicySet
CommonNamestring Description CIM_Policy
PolicyKeywordsstring[] Description CIM_Policy
Captionstring Description
MaxLen
CIM_ManagedElement
Descriptionstring Description CIM_ManagedElement
ElementNamestring Description CIM_ManagedElement

Property Qualifiers

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

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

Property CreationClassName Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
Keybooleantrue CIM_PolicyGroup
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_PolicyGroup
MaxLenuint32256 CIM_PolicyGroup

Property PolicyGroupName Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
Keybooleantrue CIM_PolicyGroup
DescriptionstringA user-friendly name of this PolicyGroup. CIM_PolicyGroup
MaxLenuint32256 CIM_PolicyGroup

Property PolicyDecisionStrategy Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
DescriptionstringPolicyDecisionStrategy defines the evaluation method used for policies contained in the PolicySet. There are two values currently defined: - ’ First Matching ’ (1) executes the actions of the first rule whose conditions evaluate to TRUE. The concept of ’ first ’ is determined by examining the priority of the rule within the policy set (i.e., by examining the property, PolicySetComponent.Priority). Note that this ordering property MUST be maintained when processing the PolicyDecisionStrategy. - ’ All ’ (2) executes the actions of ALL rules whose conditions evaluate to TRUE, in the set. As noted above, the order of processing of the rules is defined by the property, PolicySetComponent.Priority (and within a rule, the ordering of the actions is defined by the property, PolicyActionStructure.ActionOrder). Note that when this strategy is defined, processing MUST be completed of ALL rules whose conditions evaluate to TRUE, regardless of errors in the execution of the rule actions. CIM_PolicySet
ValueMapstring
[See below.]
CIM_PolicySet
ValuesstringFirst Matching
All
CIM_PolicySet

NameValue
1First Matching
2All
Property PolicyRoles Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
DescriptionstringThe PolicyRoles property represents the roles associated with a PolicySet. All contained PolicySet instances inherit the values of the PolicyRoles of the aggregating PolicySet but the values are not copied. A contained PolicySet instance may, however, add additional PolicyRoles to those it inherits from its aggregating PolicySet(s). Each value in PolicyRoles multi-valued property represents a role for which the PolicySet applies, i.e., the PolicySet should be used by any enforcement point that assumes any of the listed PolicyRoles values. Although not officially designated as ’ role combinations ’ , multiple roles may be specified using the form: < RoleName > [ & & < RoleName > ]* where the individual role names appear in alphabetical order (according to the collating sequence for UCS-2). Implementations may treat PolicyRoles values that are specified as ’ role combinations ’ as simple strings. This property is deprecated in lieu of the use of an association, CIM_PolicySetInRoleCollection. The latter is a more explicit and less error-prone approach to modeling that a PolicySet has one or more PolicyRoles. CIM_PolicySet

Property Enabled Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
DescriptionstringIndicates whether this PolicySet is administratively enabled, administratively disabled, or enabled for debug. The " EnabledForDebug " property value is deprecated and, when it or any value not understood by the receiver is specified, the receiving enforcement point treats the PolicySet as " Disabled " . To determine if a PolicySet is " Enabled " , the containment hierarchy specified by the PolicySetComponent aggregation is examined and the Enabled property values of the hierarchy are ANDed together. Thus, for example, everything aggregated by a PolicyGroup may be disabled by setting the Enabled property in the PolicyGroup instance to " Disabled " without changing the Enabled property values of any of the aggregated instances. The default value is 1 ( " Enabled " ). CIM_PolicySet
ValueMapstring
[See below.]
CIM_PolicySet
ValuesstringEnabled
Disabled
Enabled For Debug
CIM_PolicySet

NameValue
1Enabled
2Disabled
3Enabled For Debug
Property CommonName Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
DescriptionstringA user-friendly name of this policy-related object. CIM_Policy

Property PolicyKeywords Qualifiers
NameTypeValueFrom Class
DescriptionstringAn array of keywords for characterizing / categorizing policy objects. Keywords are of one of two types: - Keywords defined in this and other MOFs, or in DMTF white papers. These keywords provide a vendor- independent, installation-independent way of characterizing policy objects. - Installation-dependent keywords for characterizing policy objects. Examples include ’ Engineering ’ , ’ Billing ’ , and ’ Review in December 2000 ’ . This MOF defines the following keywords: ’ UNKNOWN ’ , ’ CONFIGURATION ’ , ’ USAGE ’ , ’ SECURITY ’ , ’ SERVICE ’ , ’ MOTIVATIONAL ’ , ’ INSTALLATION ’ , and ’ EVENT ’ . These concepts are self-explanatory and are further discussed in the SLA/Policy White Paper. One additional keyword is defined: ’ POLICY ’ . The role of this keyword is to identify policy-related instances that may not be otherwise identifiable, in some implementations. The keyword ’ POLICY ’ is NOT mutually exclusive of the other keywords specified above. CIM_Policy

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 the Name property of ManagedSystemElement 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 can 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_PolicyGroupInPolicyGroupCIM_PolicyGroupGroupComponent
CIM_PolicyGroupInPolicyGroupCIM_PolicyGroupPartComponent
CIM_PolicyRuleInPolicyGroupCIM_PolicyGroupGroupComponent
CIM_PolicyGroupInSystemCIM_PolicyGroupDependent
CIM_IPsecPolicyForSystemCIM_PolicyGroupDependent
CIM_IPsecPolicyForEndpointCIM_PolicyGroupDependent
CIM_PolicySetComponentCIM_PolicySetGroupComponent
CIM_PolicySetComponentCIM_PolicySetPartComponent
CIM_PolicySetValidityPeriodCIM_PolicySetGroupComponent
CIM_PolicySetInSystemCIM_PolicySetDependent
CIM_PolicySetInRoleCollectionCIM_PolicySetMember
CIM_PolicySetAppliesToElementCIM_PolicySetPolicySet
CIM_PolicyComponentCIM_PolicyGroupComponent
CIM_PolicyComponentCIM_PolicyPartComponent
CIM_PolicyConditionStructureCIM_PolicyGroupComponent
CIM_PolicyActionStructureCIM_PolicyGroupComponent
CIM_PolicyInSystemCIM_PolicyDependent
CIM_ReusablePolicyCIM_PolicyDependent
CIM_ComponentCIM_ManagedElementGroupComponent
CIM_ComponentCIM_ManagedElementPartComponent
CIM_ConcreteComponentCIM_ManagedElementGroupComponent
CIM_ConcreteComponentCIM_ManagedElementPartComponent
CIM_CredentialContextCIM_ManagedElementElementProvidingContext
CIM_DefaultElementCapabilitiesCIM_ManagedElementManagedElement
CIM_DependencyCIM_ManagedElementAntecedent
CIM_DependencyCIM_ManagedElementDependent
CIM_HostedDependencyCIM_ManagedElementAntecedent
CIM_HostedDependencyCIM_ManagedElementDependent
CIM_ScopedSettingCIM_ManagedElementAntecedent
CIM_MetricDefForMECIM_ManagedElementAntecedent
CIM_MetricForMECIM_ManagedElementAntecedent
CIM_RelatedElementCausingErrorCIM_ManagedElementDependent
CIM_RelatedElementCausingErrorCIM_ManagedElementAntecedent
CIM_SparedCIM_ManagedElementAntecedent
CIM_SparedCIM_ManagedElementDependent
CIM_ConcreteDependencyCIM_ManagedElementAntecedent
CIM_ConcreteDependencyCIM_ManagedElementDependent
CIM_ElementAsUserCIM_ManagedElementAntecedent
CIM_RecordAppliesToElementCIM_ManagedElementDependent
CIM_AuthenticationTargetCIM_ManagedElementDependent
CIM_AuthorizationSubjectCIM_ManagedElementDependent
CIM_AuthorizationTargetCIM_ManagedElementDependent
CIM_ElementSoftwareIdentityCIM_ManagedElementDependent
CIM_IsSpareCIM_ManagedElementAntecedent
CIM_ProvidesServiceToElementCIM_ManagedElementDependent
CIM_ElementCapabilitiesCIM_ManagedElementManagedElement
CIM_IdentityContextCIM_ManagedElementElementProvidingContext
CIM_LogicalIdentityCIM_ManagedElementSystemElement
CIM_LogicalIdentityCIM_ManagedElementSameElement
CIM_ConcreteIdentityCIM_ManagedElementSystemElement
CIM_ConcreteIdentityCIM_ManagedElementSameElement
CIM_SWRManageableAspectCIM_ManagedElementSystemElement
CIM_MemberOfCollectionCIM_ManagedElementMember
CIM_MemberPrincipalCIM_ManagedElementMember
CIM_ElementInPolicyRoleCollectionCIM_ManagedElementMember
CIM_OwningCollectionElementCIM_ManagedElementOwningElement
CIM_ParametersForMethodCIM_ManagedElementTheMethod
CIM_ParameterValueSourcesCIM_ManagedElementValueSource
CIM_PolicySetAppliesToElementCIM_ManagedElementManagedElement
CIM_AuthorizationRuleAppliesToTargetCIM_ManagedElementManagedElement
CIM_RoleLimitedToTargetCIM_ManagedElementTargetElement
CIM_StatisticsCIM_ManagedElementElement
CIM_SynchronizedCIM_ManagedElementSystemElement
CIM_SynchronizedCIM_ManagedElementSyncedElement
CIM_StorageSynchronizedCIM_ManagedElementSystemElement
CIM_StorageSynchronizedCIM_ManagedElementSyncedElement
CIM_AssignedIdentityCIM_ManagedElementManagedElement
CIM_AuthorizedSubjectCIM_ManagedElementPrivilegedElement
CIM_AuthorizedTargetCIM_ManagedElementTargetElement
CIM_ElementConformsToProfileCIM_ManagedElementManagedElement
CIM_ElementLocationCIM_ManagedElementElement
CIM_ElementProfileCIM_ManagedElementManagedElement
CIM_ElementSecuritySensitivityCIM_ManagedElementManagedElement
CIM_ElementSettingDataCIM_ManagedElementManagedElement
CIM_ElementStatisticalDataCIM_ManagedElementManagedElement
CIM_OwningJobElementCIM_ManagedElementOwningElement
CIM_AffectedJobElementCIM_ManagedElementAffectedElement
CIM_ServiceAffectsElementCIM_ManagedElementAffectedElement
CIM_ServiceAvailableToElementCIM_ManagedElementUserOfService
CIM_SAPAvailableForElementCIM_ManagedElementManagedElement
CIM_ManagementSAPCIM_ManagedElementManagedElement