1 2 Document Identifier: DSP0004 3 Date: 2014-08-30 4 Version: 3.0.1 5 Common Information Model (CIM) Metamodel 6 Document Type: Specification 7 Document Status: DMTF Standard 8 Document Language: en-US Common Information Model (CIM) Metamodel DSP0004 9 Copyright Notice 10 Copyright © 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2009-2012, 2014 Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. 11 (DMTF). All rights reserved. 12 DMTF is a not-for-profit association of industry members dedicated to promoting enterprise and systems 13 management and interoperability. Members and non-members may reproduce DMTF specifications and 14 documents, provided that correct attribution is given. As DMTF specifications may be revised from time to 15 time, the particular version and release date should always be noted. 16 Implementation of certain elements of this standard or proposed standard may be subject to third party 17 patent rights, including provisional patent rights (herein "patent rights"). 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Introduction.................................................................................................................................................... 8 35 Document conventions .......................................................................................................................... 8 36 1 Scope .................................................................................................................................................. 10 37 2 Normative references .......................................................................................................................... 10 38 3 Terms and definitions .......................................................................................................................... 11 39 4 Symbols and abbreviated terms .......................................................................................................... 13 40 5 CIM schema elements ......................................................................................................................... 13 41 5.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 13 42 5.2 Modeling a management domain ............................................................................................. 13 43 5.3 Models and schema .................................................................................................................. 13 44 5.4 Common attributes of typed elements ...................................................................................... 14 45 5.4.1 Scalar ........................................................................................................................... 14 46 5.4.2 Array ............................................................................................................................ 14 47 5.5 Primitive types ........................................................................................................................... 15 48 5.5.1 Datetime ....................................................................................................................... 16 49 5.5.2 OctetString ................................................................................................................... 18 50 5.5.3 String ............................................................................................................................ 18 51 5.5.4 Null ............................................................................................................................... 19 52 5.6 Schema elements ..................................................................................................................... 19 53 5.6.1 Enumeration ................................................................................................................. 19 54 5.6.2 EnumValue .................................................................................................................. 19 55 5.6.3 Property ....................................................................................................................... 19 56 5.6.4 Method ......................................................................................................................... 20 57 5.6.5 Parameter .................................................................................................................... 22 58 5.6.6 Structure ...................................................................................................................... 22 59 5.6.7 Class ............................................................................................................................ 23 60 5.6.8 Association ................................................................................................................... 23 61 5.6.9 Reference type ............................................................................................................. 24 62 5.6.10 Instance value .............................................................................................................. 25 63 5.6.11 Structure value ............................................................................................................. 25 64 5.6.12 Qualifier types and qualifiers ....................................................................................... 25 65 5.7 Naming of model elements in a schema ................................................................................... 26 66 5.7.1 Matching ...................................................................................................................... 26 67 5.7.2 Uniqueness .................................................................................................................. 26 68 5.8 qualifiedName = *(contextName "::") elementName Schema backwards compatibility 69 rules .......................................................................................................................................... 27 70 6 CIM metamodel ................................................................................................................................... 30 71 6.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 31 72 6.2 Notation ..................................................................................................................................... 31 73 6.2.1 Attributes ...................................................................................................................... 31 74 6.2.2 Associations ................................................................................................................. 31 75 6.2.3 Constraints ................................................................................................................... 32 76 6.3 Types used within the metamodel ............................................................................................ 32 77 6.3.1 AccessKind .................................................................................................................. 32 78 6.3.2 AggregationKind .......................................................................................................... 33 79 6.3.3 ArrayKind ..................................................................................................................... 33 80 6.3.4 Boolean ........................................................................................................................ 33 81 6.3.5 DirectionKind ................................................................................................................ 33 82 6.3.6 PropagationPolicyKind ................................................................................................. 33 83 6.3.7 QualifierScopeKind .....................................................................................................