Reference Guide

Property Description
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. See 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 have
the value No Change (5).
There are two new values in RequestedState that build on the statuses of EnabledState.
These are
Reboot (10) and Reset (11). Shut Down requests an orderly transition to the
Disabled state, and may involve removing power, to completely erase any existing state.
The Disabled state requests an immediate disabling of the element, such that it will not
execute or accept any commands or processing requests.
This property is set as the result of a method invocation (such as Start or StopService on
CIM_Service), or can be overridden and defined as WRITEable in a subclass. The method
approach is considered superior to a WRITEable property, because it allows an explicit
invocation of the operation and the return of a result code.
If knowledge of the last RequestedState is not supported for the EnabledLogicalElement,
the property is NULL or has the value
12 Not Applicable.
SystemCreationClassName
The CreationClassName of the scoping System.
SystemName
The Name of the scoping System.
TransitioningToState
Indicates the target state to which the instance is transitioning.
• 0 = Unknown
• 2 = Enabled
• 3 = Disabled
• 4 = Shut Down
• 5 = No Change — Indicates that no transition is in progress.
• 6 = Offline
• 7 = Test
• 8 = Defer
• 9 = Quiesce
• 10 = Reboot
• 11 = Reset
• 12 = Not Applicable — Indicates that the implementation does not support representing
ongoing transitions.
A value other than 5 or 12 identifies the state to which the element is in the process of
transitioning.
SetBIOSAttributes (Method)
This method is called to modify a group of BIOSAttribute instances associated with this
BIOSService. The method may return the following errors:
• 0 (Success) — If the method is completed successfully.
• 1 (Failure) — If
• the possible value is out of range. For example, trying to set value other than 0 to 23
for the attribute Autoon Hour.
• it is an unsupported BIOS operation. For example, trying to enable TPM when TPM
is disabled.
• 2 (Authentication failure) — If the BIOS password is incorrect.
• 4294967295 (Invalid Possible Value) — If the possible value is invalid; or read-only.
The method may return an instance of CIM_Error.
RemoteBIOSUpdate (Method)
This method is called to remotely update the BIOS image. It takes the hdr file of the BIOS
image as the only parameter.
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