CIM Reference Guide

16 Introduction
Typographical Conventions
The following example shows how most of the classes in the Dell CIM provider
are documented. Table 1-2 shows a partial class description for the DELL_DMA
class. (For a full class description, see Table 3-42)
Class Name appears in
Courier typeface and provides the string that names
the class in the MOF.
Parent Class appears in
Courier typeface and provides the name of the class
from which the present class is derived.
Property denotes the name of the attribute that is being defined for this class.
Description includes text that defines the property.
Data Type stipulates the format that the values of this property must take.
Common data types include Boolean, string, and various types of integer.
Boolean indicates that the property must be expressed as one of two
alternatives.
Table 1-2. CIM_DMA Properties
Class Name: CIM_DMA
Parent Class: CIM_SystemResource
Property Description Data Type
DMAChannel A part of the object’s key value, the DMA channel
number.
uint32
Availability Availability of the DMA. Availability values are
defined as follows:
1 - Other
2 - Unknown
3 - Available
4 - In Use/Not Available
5 - In Use and Available/Shareable
uint16