1 2 Document Number: DSP0004 3 Date: 2013-11-18 4 Version: 2.8.0a 5 Common Information Model (CIM) Infrastructure Information for Work-in-Progress version: IMPORTANT: This document is not a standard. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the DMTF or all of its members. Because this document is a Work in Progress, it may still change, perhaps profoundly. This document is available for public review and comment until the stated expiration date. It expires on: 2014-05-15 Provide any comments through the DMTF Feedback Portal: http://www.dmtf.org/standards/feedback 6 Document Type: Specification 7 Document Status: Work in Progress 8 Document Language: en-US Common Information Model (CIM) Infrastructure DSP0004 9 Copyright Notice 10 Copyright © 1997-2013 Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF). All rights reserved. 11 DMTF is a not-for-profit association of industry members dedicated to promoting enterprise and systems 12 management and interoperability. 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....................................................................................................................................................... 7 36 Acknowledgments ................................................................................................................................. 7 37 Introduction.................................................................................................................................................... 8 38 Document Conventions ......................................................................................................................... 8 39 Typographical Conventions ........................................................................................................ 8 40 ABNF Usage Conventions .......................................................................................................... 8 41 Deprecated Material .................................................................................................................... 8 42 Experimental Material ................................................................................................................. 9 43 CIM Management Schema.................................................................................................................... 9 44 Core Model ............................................................................................................................................ 9 45 Common Model ..................................................................................................................................... 9 46 Extension Schema .............................................................................................................................. 10 47 CIM Implementations .......................................................................................................................... 10 48 CIM Implementation Conformance ..................................................................................................... 11 49 1 Scope .................................................................................................................................................. 13 50 2 Normative References ......................................................................................................................... 13 51 3 Terms and Definitions ......................................................................................................................... 15 52 4 Symbols and Abbreviated Terms ........................................................................................................ 27 53 5 Meta Schema ...................................................................................................................................... 28 54 5.1 Definition of the Meta Schema .................................................................................................. 28 55 5.1.1 Formal Syntax used in Descriptions ............................................................................ 31 56 5.1.2 CIM Meta-Elements ..................................................................................................... 32 57 5.2 Data Types ................................................................................................................................ 48 58 5.2.1 UCS and Unicode ........................................................................................................ 48 59 5.2.2 String Type ................................................................................................................... 49 60 5.2.3 Char16 Type ................................................................................................................ 50 61 5.2.4 Datetime Type .............................................................................................................. 50 62 5.2.5 Indicating Additional Type Semantics with Qualifiers .................................................. 56 63 5.2.6 Comparison of Values ................................................................................................. 56 64 5.3 Backwards Compatibility ........................................................................................................... 57 65 5.4 Supported Schema Modifications ............................................................................................. 57 66 5.4.1 Schema Versions ......................................................................................................... 64 67 5.5 Class Names ............................................................................................................................. 66 68 5.6 Qualifiers ................................................................................................................................... 66 69 5.6.1 Qualifier Concept ......................................................................................................... 67 70 5.6.2 Meta Qualifiers ............................................................................................................. 70 71 5.6.3 Standard Qualifiers ...................................................................................................... 70 72 5.6.4 Optional Qualifiers ....................................................................................................... 92 73 5.6.5 User-defined Qualifiers ................................................................................................ 95 74 5.6.6 Mapping Entities of Other Information Models to CIM ................................................. 96 75 6 Managed Object Format...................................................................................................................... 99 76 6.1 MOF Usage ............................................................................................................................. 100 77 6.2 Class Declarations .................................................................................................................. 100 78 6.3 Instance Declarations ............................................................................................................. 100 79 7 MOF Components ............................................................................................................................. 101 80 7.1 Lexical Case of Tokens........................................................................................................... 101 81 7.2 Comments 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