Systems Management: Common Information Model (CIM)
Copyright © 1998 The Open Group

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Open Group Technical Standard
Systems Management: Common Information Model (CIM)
Document Number: C804
ISBN: 1-85912-255-8
Incorporates DMTF Errata 2.0.2, 26 June 1998

• Frontmatter
  • Preface
    • The Open Group
    • Development of Product Standards
    • Open Group Publications
    • Versions and Issues of Specifications
    • Corrigenda
    • Ordering Information
    • This Document
    • Revision History
    • Audience
    • Structure
  • Trademarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Referenced Documents
• Introduction
  • Overview
  • CIM Management Schema
    • Core Model
    • Common Model
    • Extension Schema
  • CIM Implementations
  • Conformance
• Metaschema
  • Definition of the Metaschema
  • Property Data Types
    • Date, Time, and Interval Types
    • Indicating Additional Type Semantics with Qualifiers
  • Supported Schema Modifications
    • Schema Versions
  • Class Names
  • Qualifiers
    • Metaqualifiers
    • Standard Qualifiers
    • Optional Qualifiers
    • User-Defined Qualifiers
    • Mapping MIF Attributes
    • Mapping Generic Data to CIM Properties
    • Footnotes
• Managed Object Format
  • MOF Usage
  • Class Declarations
  • Instance Declarations
• Managed Object Format Components
  • Keywords
  • Comments
  • Validation Context
  • Naming of Schema Elements
  • Class Declarations
    • Declaring a Class
    • Subclasses
    • Default Property Values
    • Class and Property Qualifiers
    • Key Properties
  • Qualifier Declarations
  • Instance Declarations
    • Instance Aliasing
    • Object References
    • Arrays
  • Method Declarations
  • Compiler Directives
  • Value Constants
    • String Constants
    • Character Constants
    • Integral Constants
    • Floating-Point Constants
    • Object Ref Constants
    • NULL
  • Initializers
    • Initializing Arrays
    • Initializing References using Aliases
• Naming
  • Overview
  • Background
    • Management Tool Responsibility for Export Operation
    • Management Tool Responsibility for Import Operation
  • Weak Associations: Supporting Key Propagation
    • Referencing Weak Objects
  • Naming CIM Objects
    • Namespace Path
      • Namespace Type
      • Namespace Handle
    • Model Path
  • Specifying Object Names in MOF Files
    • Synchronizing Namespaces
    • Building References Between Management Systems
• Mapping Existing Models into CIM
  • Technique Mapping
  • Recast Mapping
  • Domain Mapping
  • Mapping Scratch Pads
• Repository Perspective
  • Overview
  • DMTF MIF Mapping Strategies
  • Recording Mapping Decisions
• MOF Syntax Grammar Description
• CIM Metaschema
• Values for UNITS Qualifier
• Unified Modeling Language (UML) Notation
• UNICODE Usage
  • Basic Character Set
  • MOF Text
  • Quoted Strings
• Guidelines for CIM Usage
  • General
  • Mapping of Octet Strings
  • SQL Reserved Words
    • From sql1992.txt:
    • From sql1992.txt (Annex E):
    • From sql3part2.txt (Annex E):
    • From sql3part4.txt (Annex E):
• Glossary
  • Aggregation
  • Association
  • Cardinality
  • CIM
  • CIM schema
  • Class
  • Common model
  • Core model
  • DMTF
  • Domain
  • Explicit Qualifier
  • Extended schema
  • Feature
  • Flavor
  • GDMO
  • Implicit Qualifier
  • Indication
  • Inheritance
  • Instance
  • Key
  • Managed object
  • Metamodel
  • Metaschema
  • Method
  • MIF
  • Model
  • Model path
  • MOF
  • Name
  • Namespace
  • Namespath path
  • Polymorphism
  • Property
  • Provider
  • Qualifier
  • Reference
  • Schema
  • Scope
  • Scoping object
  • Signature
  • SMI
  • SNMP
  • SQL
  • Subclass
  • Superclass
  • Top level object
  • Trigger
  • UML
• INDEX

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