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name, the property either shall have the value denoted in the corresponding column “Additional
Requirements”, or shall be implemented according to the requirements in the corresponding column
“Additional Requirements”.
Table 17 – Class: CIM_RegisteredProfile
Properties
Requirement
Description
RegisteredName
Mandatory
This property shall have a value of “Simple NIC”.
RegisteredVersion
Mandatory
This property shall have a value of “1.0.0”.
RegisteredOrganization
Mandatory
This property shall have a value of 1 (Other).
OtherRegisteredOrganization
Mandatory
This property shall match “DCIM”
8 Methods
This section details the requirements for supporting intrinsic operations and extrinsic methods for the CIM
elements defined by this profile.
8.1 CIM_SimpleNICService.SetAttribute()
The SetAttribute() method is used to set or change the value of a NIC attribute.
Invocation of the SetAttribute() method shall change the value of the DCIM_NICAttribute.CurrentValue or
DCIM_NICAttribute.PendingValue property to the value specified by the AttributeValue parameter if the
DCIM_NICAttribute.IsReadOnly property is FALSE. Invocation of this method when the
DCIM_NICAttribute.IsReadOnly property is TRUE shall result in no change to the value of the
DCIM_NICAttribute.CurrentValue property. The results of changing this value is described with the
SetResult parameter.
Return code values for the SetAttribute() method are specified in Table 18 – and parameters are
specified in Table 19 –. Invoking the SetAttribute() method multiple times can result in the earlier
requests being overwritten or lost.
Table 18 – SetAttribute() Method: Return Code Values
Value
Description
0
Completed with no error
1
Not supported
2
Failed
Table 19 – SetAttribute() Method: Parameters
Qualifiers
Name
Type
Description/Values
IN, REQ
Target
String
FQDD of the NIC
IN, REQ
AttributeName
String
Shall contain the AttributeName property value for the
attribute to be modified.
IN, REQ
AttributeValue[]
String
Shall contain the desired attribute value.
If the value is valid, the CurrentValue or PendingValue
property of the specified attribute will be modified.