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The management tasks requested by the management application shall be represented by instances of a 386
subclass of the DCIM_LifecycleJob class which is a subclass of the CIM_ConcreteJob class. The 387
DCIM_LifecycleJob class is further subclassed as the DCIM_SoftUpdateConcreteJob for BIOS, firmware, 388
and embedded software update jobs. Software update related methods (see the Dell Software Update 389
Profile) return references to the DCIM_SoftUpdateConcreteJob class. Most of the system management 390
tasks require a reboot of the system, which can be scheduled as a job or the reboot can be performed by 391
other means after the job tasks have reached their scheduled start time. 392
To accomplish these offline platform management actions, several specific job types are defined to 393
represent types of remote enablement actions: 394
• Image Update 395
• Image Rollback 396
• Reboot 397
7.2.3.1 Name 398
The DCIM_LifeCycleJob.Name property represents the job type and is formulated as follows: 399