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251 5 Synopsis
252 Profile Name: Fiber Channel
253 Version: 1.0.1
254 Organization: Dell Inc.
255 CIM Schema Version: 2.26 Experimental
256 Central Class: DCIM_FCService
257 Scoping Class: CIM_ComputerSystem
258 The Fiber Channel Profile extends the management capability of the referencing profiles by adding the
259 capability to describe fibre channel (FC) controllers in a simple way. In this profile, a FC HBA is
260 represented by a view instance that aggregates zero or more instances of the DCIM_FCAttribute class,
261 each representing an FC HBA related configurable property.
262 DCIM_FCService shall be the Central Class.
263 CIM_ComputerSystem shall be the Scoping Class.
264 Instance of DCIM_FCService shall be the Central Instance.
265 Instance of CIM_ComputerSystem shall be the Scoping Instance.
266 Table 1 identifies profiles that are related to this profile.
267
Table 1 – Related Profiles
Profile Name
Organization
Version
Relationship
Profile Registration
DCIM
1.0
Reference
268 6 Description
269 The Fiber Channel Profile describes FC HBA’s representation and configuration. The profile also
270 describes the relationship of the Fiber Channel Profile classes to the Dell profile version information.
271 Figure 1 represents the class schema for the Fiber Channel Profile. For simplicity, the prefix CIM_ has
272 been removed from the names of the classes.
273 The DCIM_FCView class is a FC HBA’s representation that contains controllers’ properties.
274 The DCIM_FCCapabilities class represents FC HBA’s capabilities.
275 The DCIM_FCStatistics class represents FC HBA’s port statistics.
276 The DCIM_FCAttribute class derives from the CIM_BIOSAttribute class and represents each FC’s
277 configurable attribute.Depending on the data type of the attribute, DCIM_FCAttribute is either instantiated
278 as DCIM_FCEnumeration, DCIM_FCString, or DCIM_FCInteger instance.
279 DCIM_FCView instance represents the FC HBA.
280 The DCIM_FCService class is used to configure the FC HBA through its attributes. The SetAttribute() and
281 SetAttributes() methods on the DCIM_FCService class configure FC HBA attributes, DCIM_FCAttribute
282 subclass instances.