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Property Description Supported Operating
System(s)
a value of 1 (Other). For all other values of
AlertingElementFormat, the value of this string must
be set to NULL.
OtherAlertType
A string describing the Alert type — used when the
AlertType property is set to 1, Other State Change.
Microsoft Windows,
Linux
OtherSeverity
Holds the value of the user-defined severity value
when PerceivedSeverity is 1 (Other).
Microsoft Windows,
Linux
OwningEntity
A string that uniquely identifies the entity that owns
the definition of the format of the Message described
in this instance. OwningEntity MUST include a
copyrighted, trademarked or otherwise unique name
that is owned by the business entity or standards body
defining the format.
Microsoft Windows,
Linux
PerceivedSeverity
An enumerated value that describes the severity of the
Alert Indication from the notifier's point of view:
Possible values are:
• 2 and 0 — Information and Unknown
(respectively) follow common usage. Literally, the
AlertIndication is purely informational or its severity
is unknown.
• 1 = Other — By CIM convention, is used to
indicate that the Severity's value can be found in
the OtherSeverity property.
• 3 = Degraded/Warning — Is used when it is
appropriate to let the user decide if action is
needed.
• 4 = Minor — Is used to indicate that action is
needed, but the situation is not serious now.
• 5 = Major — Is used to indicate that action is
needed NOW.
• 6 = Critical — Is used to indicate that action is
needed NOW and the scope is broad (perhaps an
imminent outage to a critical resource results).
• 7 = Fatal/Non recoverable — Is used to indicate
that an error occurred, but it is too late to take
remedial action.
Microsoft Windows,
Linux
ProbableCause
An enumerated value that describes the probable
cause of the situation that resulted in the
AlertIndication.
Possible values are:
• 0 = Unknown
• 1 = Other
• 2 = Adapter/Card Error
• 3 = Application Subsystem Failure
• 4 = Bandwidth Reduced
• 5 = Connection Establishment Error
• 6 = Communications Protocol Error
• 7 = Communications Subsystem Failure
• 8 = Configuration/Customization Error
• 9 = Congestion
• 10 = Corrupt Data
Microsoft Windows,
Linux
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