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CIM Meta Schema - Property

A property is a value used to denote a characteristic of a class. Properties are scoped by the class that owns the property and must be unique within the class. A property has a name, data type, value and an optional default value. A property that does not have a default value is initialized to null.

Property data types are limited to the following intrinsic data types or arrays of such.

INTRINSIC DATA TYPE	INTERPRETATION
uint8	Unsigned 8-bit integer
sint8	Signed 8-bit integer
uint16	Unsigned 16-bit integer
sint16	Signed 16-bit integer
uint32	Unsigned 32-bit integer
sint32	Signed 32-bit integer
uint64	Unsigned 64-bit integer
sint64	Signed 64-bit integer
string	UCS-2 string
boolean	Boolean
real32	IEEE 4-byte floating-point
real64	IEEE 8-byte floating-point
datetime	A string containing a date-time
<classname> ref	Strongly typed reference
char16	16-bit UCS-2 character

Examples

[MaxLen (64), Description (
        "The Caption property is a short textual description (one-"
        "line string) of the object.") ]
string Caption;

[Write, Description (
        "An enumerated value indicating an administrator's "
        "default/startup configuration for an element's Enabled"
        "Status. By default, the element is \"Enabled\" (value=2)."),
        ValueMap {"2", "3", "5", "6", "7"},
        Values {"Enabled", "Disabled", "Not Applicable",
        "Enabled but Offline", "No Default"} ]
uint16 EnabledDefault = 2;