Reference Guide
Property Description Supported 
Operating 
System(s)
Completed with Degraded (the operation finished, but it did not complete OK or did 
not report an error).
• 18 = Power Mode — Indicates that the element has additional power model 
information contained in the Associated PowerManagementService association.
• .. = DMTF Reserved
• 0x8000.. = Vendor Reserved
OperationalStatus replaces the Status property on ManagedSystemElement to provide a 
consistent approach to enumerations, to address implementation needs for an array 
property, and to provide a migration path from today's environment to the future. This 
change was not made earlier because it required the deprecated qualifier. Due to the 
widespread use of the existing Status property in management applications, it is strongly 
recommended that providers or instrumentation provide both the Status and 
OperationalStatus properties. Further, the first value of OperationalStatus should contain 
the primary status for the element. When instrumented, Status (because it is single-
valued) should also provide the primary status of the element.
PossibleStates
Enumerates the string outputs of the Sensor.
Example 1 - A Switch Sensor may output the states On, or Off. Another implementation 
of the Switch may output the states Open, and Close.
Example 2 - Is a NumericSensor supporting thresholds. This Sensor can report the states 
like 
Normal, Upper Non-Critical, Lower Non-Critical, and so on. A NumericSensor 
that does not publish readings and thresholds, but stores this data internally, can still 
report its states.
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Windows, Linux
RateUnits 
Specifies if the units returned by this Sensor are rate units. All the values returned by this 
Sensor are represented in the units obtained by (BaseUnits * 10 raised to the power of 
the UnitModifier). This is true unless this property (RateUnits) has a value different than 
None. For example, if BaseUnits is Volts and the UnitModifier is -6, then the units of the 
values returned are MicroVolts. But, if the RateUnits property is set to a value other than 
None, then the units are further qualified as rate units. In the above example, if RateUnits 
is set to 
Per Second, then the values returned by the Sensor are in MicroVolts/Second. 
The units apply to all numeric properties of the Sensor, unless explicitly overridden by the 
Units qualifier. Any implementation of CurrentReading should be qualified with either a 
Counter or a Gauge qualifier, depending on the characteristics of the sensor being 
modeled.
Possible values are:
• 0 = None
• 1 = Per MicroSecond
• 2 = Per MilliSecond
• 3 = Per Second
• 4 = Per Minute
• 5 = Per Hour
• 6 = Per Day
• 7 = Per Week
• 8 = Per Month
• 9 = Per Year
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Windows, Linux
RequestedState
An integer enumeration that indicates the last requested or desired state for the element, 
irrespective of the mechanism through which it was requested. The actual state of the 
element is represented by EnabledState. This property is provided to compare the last 
requested and current enabled or disabled states. Note that when EnabledState is set to 
5 
(Not Applicable), then this property has no meaning. Refer to the EnabledState property 
description for explanations of the values in the RequestedState enumeration.
NOTE: The value No Change (5) has been deprecated instead of indicating 
the last requested state is Unknown (0). If the last requested or desired state 
is unknown, RequestedState should have the value Unknown (0), but may 
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