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//====================================================================
// Title:      Event MOF Specification 2.5
// Filename:   CIM_Event25f.mof
// Version:    2.5
// Status:      Final
// Date:        06/12/2001
// ===================================================================
// Copyright "2001" Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF).
// All rights reserved.  
// DMTF is a not-for-profit association of industry members dedicated 
// to promoting enterprise and systems management and interoperability. 
// DMTF specifications and documents may be reproduced for uses
// consistent with this purpose by members and non-members, 
// provided that correct attribution is given. 
// As DMTF specifications may be revised from time to time, 
// the particular version and release cited should always be noted.
// Description: These object classes define the user and security 
//              model for CIM and includes classes needed to represent
//              users, groups and organizational entities as well as 
//              security services and authentication and authorization 
//              information.
//              The object classes below are listed in an order that
//              avoids forward references. Required objects, defined 
//		    by other working groups, are omitted. 
// ===================================================================
// Description: The object classes below are listed in an order that
//              avoids forward references. Required objects, defined 
//		    by other working groups, are omitted. 
// ===================================================================
// Date:    12/18/2000 - Initial release, Version 2.5
// Author:  DMTF Event Working Group
//====================================================================


// ===================================================================
// Pragmas
// ===================================================================
#pragma locale ("en_US")


//====================================================================
//  CIM_Indication
//====================================================================
   [Indication, Abstract,
    Description (
     "CIM_Indication is the abstract root class for all notifications "
     "about changes in schema, objects and their data, and about "
     "events detected by providers and instrumentation. Subclasses "
     "represent specific types of notifications. \n"
     "\n"
     "To receive an Indication, a consumer (or subscriber) must create "
     "an instance of CIM_IndicationFilter describing the criteria of "
     "the notification, an instance of CIM_IndicationHandler describing "
     "the delivery of the notification, and an instance of "
     "CIM_IndicationSubscription associating the Filter and Handler.") ]
class CIM_Indication
{
    [Description (
      "The time and date of creation of the Indication. The property "
      "may be set to NULL if the entity creating the Indication is "
      "not capable of determing this information. Note that "
      "IndicationTime may be the same for two Indications that are "
      "generated in rapid succession.") ]
    datetime IndicationTime;
};

//====================================================================
//  CIM_ClassIndication
//====================================================================
   [Indication, Abstract,
    Description (
     "CIM_ClassIndication is an abstract superclass describing changes "
     "in the definition of the schema. Subclasses represent specific "
     "types of change notifications, such as class creation, deletion "
     "and modification.") ]
class CIM_ClassIndication : CIM_Indication
{
    [EmbeddedObject, Required,  
     Description (
      "The current definition of the class that is created, changed "
      "or deleted in the schema. In the case of a CIM_ClassDeletion "
      "Indication, the definition for the class just prior to "
      "deletion should be placed in this property.") ]
    string ClassDefinition;
};

//====================================================================
//  CIM_ClassCreation
//====================================================================
   [Indication, 
    Description (
     "CIM_ClassCreation notifies when a new class is defined in the "
     "schema.") ]
class CIM_ClassCreation : CIM_ClassIndication
{
};

//====================================================================
//  CIM_ClassDeletion
//====================================================================
   [Indication,
    Description (
     "CIM_ClassDeletion notifies when a class is deleted from the "
     "schema.") ]
class CIM_ClassDeletion : CIM_ClassIndication
{
};

//====================================================================
//  CIM_ClassModification
//====================================================================
   [Indication,
    Description (
     "CIM_ClassModification notifies when a class definition in the "
     "schema is modified.") ]
class CIM_ClassModification : CIM_ClassIndication
{
    [EmbeddedObject, Required, 
     Description (
      "A copy of the 'previous' class definition whose change "
      "generated the Indication. PreviousClassDefinition contains "
      "an 'older' copy of the class' information, as compared to "
      "what is found in the ClassDefinition property (inherited "
      "from ClassIndication).") ]
    string PreviousClassDefinition;
};

//====================================================================
//  CIM_InstIndication
//====================================================================
   [Indication, Abstract,
    Description (
     "CIM_InstIndication is an abstract superclass describing changes "
     "to instances. Subclasses represent specific types of change "
     "notifications, such as instance creation, deletion and "
     "modification.") ]
class CIM_InstIndication : CIM_Indication
{
    [EmbeddedObject, Required, 
     Description (
      "A copy of the instance that changed to generate the "
      "Indication. SourceInstance contains the current values of "
      "the properties selected by the Indication"
      "Filter's Query. In the case of CIM_InstDeletion, "
      "the property values are copied before the instance is "
      "deleted.") ]
    string SourceInstance;
};

//====================================================================
//  CIM_InstCreation
//====================================================================
   [Indication,
    Description (
     "CIM_InstCreation notifies when a new instance is created.") ]
class CIM_InstCreation : CIM_InstIndication
{
};

//====================================================================
//  CIM_InstDeletion
//====================================================================
   [Indication,
    Description (
     "CIM_InstDeletion notifies when an existing instance is deleted.") ]
class CIM_InstDeletion : CIM_InstIndication
{
};

//====================================================================
//  CIM_InstModification
//====================================================================
   [Indication,
    Description (
     "CIM_InstModification notifies when an instance is modified.") ]
class CIM_InstModification : CIM_InstIndication
{
    [EmbeddedObject, Required, 
     Description (
      "A copy of the 'previous' instance whose change generated the "
      "Indication. PreviousInstance contains 'older' values of "
      "an instance's properties (as compared to SourceInstance), "
      "selected by the IndicationFilter's Query.") ]
    string PreviousInstance;
};

//====================================================================
//  CIM_InstMethodCall
//====================================================================
   [Indication,
    Description (
     "CIM_InstMethodCall notifies when an instance's method is "
     "invoked.") ]
class CIM_InstMethodCall : CIM_InstIndication
{
    [Required, Description (
      "The name of the method invoked.") ]
    string MethodName;

    [EmbeddedObject,
     Description (
      "The parameters of the method, formatted as an "
      "EmbeddedObject (with a predefined class name of "
      "\"__MethodParameters\".") ]
    string MethodParameters;

    [Description (
      "ReturnValue's data is dependent on the PreCall property. "
      "When PreCall is TRUE, this property is NULL describing that "
      "there is no method return value (since the method has not yet "
      "executed). When PreCall is FALSE, ReturnValue contains a "
      "string representation of the method's return value."), 
     ModelCorrespondence {"CIM_InstMethodCall.PreCall"} ]
    string ReturnValue;

    [Required, Description (
      "Boolean indicating whether the Indication is sent before "
      "the method begins executing (TRUE) or when the method "
      "completes (FALSE). When TRUE, the inherited property "
      "SourceInstance contains the value of the instance (the "
      "properties defined by the Filter's Query clause), "
      "before execution of the method. When PreCall is FALSE, "
      "SourceInstance embeds the instance as it appears after "
      "the completion of the method.") ]
    boolean PreCall;
};

//====================================================================
//  CIM_InstRead
//====================================================================
   [Indication,
    Description (
     "CIM_InstRead notifies when an instance is read but not "
     "modified.") ]
class CIM_InstRead : CIM_InstIndication
{
};

//====================================================================
//  CIM_ProcessIndication
//====================================================================
   [Indication, Abstract,
    Description (
     "An abstract superclass for specialized Indication classes, "
     "addressing specific changes and alerts published by providers "
     "and instrumentation. Subclasses include AlertIndication (with "
     "properties such as PerceivedSeverity and ProbableCause), and "
     "SNMPTrapIndication (which recasts Traps as CIM indications).") ]
class CIM_ProcessIndication : CIM_Indication
{
};

//====================================================================
//  CIM_SNMPTrapIndication
//====================================================================
   [Indication,
    Description (
     "A concrete  class for mapping an SNMP Trap to CIM based on the "
     "IETF RFC 1157. The usefulness of this class is to describe "
     "common trap semantics. But, a complete understanding of any trap "
     "data received relies on the Indicaton recipient having access to "
     "the sender's MIB. Understanding can be improved by mapping the "
     "SNMP domain to CIM, and using CIM LifeCycle and standard "
     "subclasses of CIM_ProcessIndication.") ]
class CIM_SNMPTrapIndication : CIM_ProcessIndication
{
    [Description (
      "Type of object generating the trap."),
     Mappingstrings {"PDU.IETF|RFC1157-TRAP-PDU.enterprise"} ]
    string Enterprise;

    [Description (
      "Address of the object generating the trap."),
     Mappingstrings {"PDU.IETF|RFC1157-TRAP-PDU.agent-addr"} ]
    string AgentAddress;

    [Description (
      "An enumerated value that describes the generic trap type: \n"
      "- The coldStart(0) trap signifies that the sending protocol "
      "entity is reinitializing itself such that the agent's "
      "configuration or the protocol entity implementation may be "
      "altered. \n"
      "- The warmStart(1) trap signifies that the sending protocol "
      "entity is reinitializing itself such that neither the agent "
      "configuration nor the protocol entity implementation is "
      "altered. \n"
      "- The linkDown(2) trap signifies that the sending protocol "
      "recognizes a failure in one of the communication links "
      "represented in the agent's configuration. The Trap-PDU of "
      "type linkDown contains as the first element of its "
      "variable-bindings the name and value of the ifIndex instance "
      "for the affected interface. \n"
      "- The linkUp(3) trap signifies that the sending protocol "
      "entity recognizes that one of the communication links "
      "represented in the agent's configuration has come up. The "
      "Trap-PDU of type linkUp contains as the first element of its "
      "variable-bindings, the name and value of the ifIndex instance "
      "for the affected interface. \n"
      "- An authenticationFailure(4) trap signifies that the sending "
      "protocol entity is the adressee of a protocol message that was "
      "not properly authenticated. While implementations of SNMP must "
      "be capable of generating this trap, they must also be capable "
      "of suppressing the emission of such traps via an implementation-"
      "specific mechanism. \n"
      "- An egpNeighborLoss(5) trap signifies that an EGP neighbor for "
      "whom the sending protocol entity was an EGP peer has been "
      "marked as down and the peer relationship no longer pertains. "
      "The Trap-PDU of type egpNeighborLoss contains as the first "
      "element of its variable-bindings, the name and value of the "
      "egpNeighAddr instance for the affected neighbor. \n"
      "- An enterpriseSpecific(6) trap signifies that the sending "
      "protocol entity recognizes that some enterprise-specific "
      "event has occurred. The specific-trap field identifies the "
      "particular trap which occurred."), 
     Values {"Cold Start", "Warm Start", "Link Down", "Link Up", 
             "Authentication Failure", "EGP Neighbor Loss", 
             "Enterprise Specific"},
      Mappingstrings {"PDU.IETF|RFC1157-TRAP-PDU.generic-trap"} ]
    uint16 GenericTrap;

    [Description ("Specific trap code."), 
     Mappingstrings {"PDU.IETF|RFC1157-TRAP-PDU.specific-trap"} ]
    uint32 SpecificTrap;

    [Description (
      "Time elapsed between the last (re)intialization of the "
      "managed entity and the generation of the trap."), 
      Mappingstrings {"PDU.IETF|RFC1157-TRAP-PDU.time-stamp"} ]
    datetime TimeStamp;

    [Description (
      "Object naming information (an OID) from the 'variable "
      "binding' portion of the Trap. This array is correlated "
      "with the VarBindSyntaxes and VarBindValues arrays. Each "
      "entry is related to the entries in the other arrays, "
      "that are located at the same index. In this way, the "
      "variable binding's name/syntax/value tuple can be "
      "constructed."), ArrayType ("Indexed"), 
     ModelCorrespondence {"CIM_SNMPTrapIndication.VarBindSyntaxes",
      "CIM_SNMPTrapIndication.VarBindValues"},
     Mappingstrings {"PDU.IETF|RFC1157-TRAP-PDU.variable-bindings"} ]
    string VarBindNames[];

    [Description (
      "Object syntax information (defined as an enumerated value) "
      "from the 'variable binding' portion of the Trap. This array "
      "is correlated with the VarBindNames and VarBindValues "
      "arrays. Each entry is related to the entries in the other "
      "arrays, that are located at the same index. In this way, "
      "the variable binding's name/syntax/value tuple can be "
      "constructed."), ArrayType ("Indexed"), 
     ValueMap {"1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8"}, 
     Values {"Integer", "OctetString", "ObjectIdentifier",
             "NetworkAddress", "Counter", "Gauge",
             "TimeTicks", "Opaque"}, 
     ModelCorrespondence {"CIM_SNMPTrapIndication.VarBindNames",
      "CIM_SNMPTrapIndication.VarBindValues"},
     Mappingstrings {"PDU.IETF|RFC1157-TRAP-PDU.variable-bindings"} ]
    uint16 VarBindSyntaxes[];

    [Description (
      "An OctetString representing object value information "
      "from the 'variable binding' portion of the Trap. This "
      "array is correlated with the VarBindNames and "
      "VarBindSyntaxes arrays. Each entry is related to the "
      "entries in the other arrays, that are located at the "
      "same index. In this way, the variable binding's "
      "name/syntax/value tuple can be constructed."), 
     ArrayType ("Indexed"), OctetString,  
     ModelCorrespondence {"CIM_SNMPTrapIndication.VarBindNames",
      "CIM_SNMPTrapIndication.VarBindSyntaxes"},
     Mappingstrings {"PDU.IETF|RFC1157-TRAP-PDU.variable-bindings"} ]
    string VarBindValues[];
};

//====================================================================
//  CIM_AlertIndication
//====================================================================
   [Indication,
    Description (
     "A concrete superclass for CIM Alert notifications.  An "
     "AlertIndication is a specialized type of CIM_Indication that "
     "contains information about the severity, cause, recommended "
     "actions and other data of a real world event. This event and its "
     "data may or may not be modeled in the CIM class hierarchy.") ]
class CIM_AlertIndication : CIM_ProcessIndication
{
    [Description (
      "A short description of the Indication."), 
     MappingStrings {"Recommendation.ITU|X733.Additional text"} ]
    string Description;

    [Description (
      "The identifying information of the entity (ie, the instance) for "
      "which this Indication is generated. The property contains the "
      "path of an instance, encoded as a string parameter - if the "
      "instance is modeled in the CIM Schema. If not a CIM instance, "
      "the property contains some identifying string that names the "
      "entity for which the Alert is generated.") ]
    string AlertingManagedElement;

    [Required, Description (
      "Primary classification of the Indication.  The following values "
      "are defined: \n"
      "1 - Other. The Indication's OtherAlertType property conveys "
      "its classification. Use of \"Other\" in an enumeration is a "
      "standard CIM convention. It means that the current Indication "
      "does not fit into the categories described by this enumeration. \n"
      "2 - Communications Alert. An Indication of this type is "
      "principally associated with the procedures and/or processes "
      "required to convey information from one point to another. \n"
      "3 - Quality of Service Alert. An Indication of this type is "
      "principally associated with a degradation or errors in the "
      "performance or function of an entity. \n"
	"4 - Processing Error. An Indication of this type is "
      "principally associated with a software or processing fault. \n"
      "5 - Device Alert. An Indication of this type is principally "
      "associated with an equipment or hardware fault. \n"
      "6 - Environmental Alert. An Indication of this type is "
      "principally associated with a condition relating to an "
      "enclosure in which the hardware resides, or other "
      "environmental considerations. \n"
      "7 - Model Change. The Indication addresses changes in the "
      "Information Model. For example, it may embed a Lifecycle "
      "Indication to convey the specific model change being "
      "alerted. \n"
      "8 - Security Alert. An Indication of this type is associated "
      "with security violations, detection of viruses, and similar "
      "issues."),
     ValueMap {"1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8"},
     Values {"Other", "Communications Alert", 
	       "Quality of Service Alert", "Processing Error", 
	       "Device Alert", "Environmental Alert", "Model Change",
             "Security Alert"},
     MappingStrings {"Recommendation.ITU|X733.Event type"} ]
    uint16 AlertType;

    [Description (
      "A string describing the Alert type - used when the AlertType "
      "property is set to 1, \"Other State Change\"."), 
     ModelCorrespondence {"CIM_AlertIndication.AlertType"} ]
    string OtherAlertType;

    [Required, Description (
      "An enumerated value that describes the severity of the Alert"
      "Indication from the notifier's point of view: \n"
      "1 - Other, by CIM convention, is used to indicate that the "
      "Severity's value can be found in the OtherSeverity property. \n"
      "3 - Degraded/Warning should be used when its appropriate to let "
      "the user decide if action is needed.  \n"
      "4 - Minor should be used to indicate action is needed, but the "
      "situation is not serious at this time.  \n"
      "5 - Major should be used to indicate action is needed NOW. \n"
      "6 - Critical should be used to indicate action is needed NOW "
      "and the scope is broad (perhaps an imminent outage to a critical "
      "resource will result). \n"
      "7 - Fatal/NonRecoverable should be used to indicate an error "
      "occurred, but it's too late to take remedial action. \n"
      "2 and 0 - Information and Unknown (respectively) follow common "
      "usage. Literally, the AlertIndication is purely informational "
      "or its severity is simply unknown."), 
     Values {"Unknown", "Other", "Information", "Degraded/Warning", 
         "Minor", "Major", "Critical", "Fatal/NonRecoverable"},
     MappingStrings {"Recommendation.ITU|X733.Perceived severity"} ]
    uint16 PerceivedSeverity;

    [Description (
      "Holds the value of the user defined severity value when "
      "'Severity' is 1 (\"Other\")."),
     ModelCorrespondence {"CIM_AlertIndication.PerceivedSeverity"} ]
    string OtherSeverity;

    [Required, Description (
      "An enumerated value that describes the probable cause of the "
      "situation which resulted in the AlertIndication."),
     Values {"Unknown", "Other", "Adapter Error", 
	   "Application Subsystem Failure", "Bandwidth Reduced", 
         "Connection Establishment Error", 
         "Communications Protocol Error", 
         "Communications Subsystem Failure", 
         "Configuration/Customization Error", "Congestion", 
         "Corrupt Data", "CPU Cycles Limit Exceeded", 
         "Dataset/Modem Error", "Degraded Signal",
         "DTE-DCE Interface Error", "Enclosure Door Open", 
         "Equipment Malfunction", "Excessive Vibration", 
         "File Format Error", "Fire Detected", "Flood Detected", 
         "Framing Error", "HVAC Problem", "Humidity Unacceptable", 
         "I/O Device Error", "Input Device Error", "LAN Error", 
         "Non-Toxic Leak Detected", "Local Node Transmission Error", 
         "Loss of Frame", "Loss of Signal", 
         "Material Supply Exhausted", "Multiplexer Problem", 
         "Out of Memory", "Output Device Error", 
         "Performance Degraded", "Power Problem", 
         "Pressure Unacceptable", 
         "Processor Problem (Internal Machine Error)", 
         "Pump Failure", "Queue Size Exceeded", "Receive Failure", 
         "Receiver Failure", "Remote Node Transmission Error", 
         "Resource at or Nearing Capacity", "Response Time Excessive", 
         "Retransmission Rate Excessive", "Software Error", 
         "Software Program Abnormally Terminated", 
         "Software Program Error (Incorrect Results)", 
         "Storage Capacity Problem", "Temperature Unacceptable", 
         "Threshold Crossed", "Timing Problem", 
         "Toxic Leak Detected", "Transmit Failure", 
         "Transmitter Failure", "Underlying Resource Unavailable", 
         "Version MisMatch", "Previous Alert Cleared", 
         "Login Attempts Failed", "Software Virus Detected", 
         "Hardware Security Breached", "Denial of Service Detected", 
         "Security Credential MisMatch", 
         "Invalid Access of Data Detected"},
     MappingStrings {"Recommendation.ITU|X733.Probable cause"} ]
    uint16 ProbableCause;

    [Description (
	"Provides additional information related to the "
      "ProbableCause.") ]
    string ProbableCauseDescription;

    [Description (
      "Provides information on trending - trending up, down or "
      "no change."),
     Values {"Unknown", "Not Applicable", "Trending Up", 
         "Trending Down", "No Change"},
     MappingStrings {"Recommendation.ITU|X733.TrendIndication"} ]
    uint16 Trending;  

    [Description (
      "An identifier for the AlertIndication. This property is "
      "similar to a key value in that it can be used for "
      "identification, when correlating AlertIndications (see "
      "the CorrelatedIndications array). Its value should be unique "
      "as long as Alert correlations are reported, but may be "
      "reused or left NULL if no future AlertIndications will "
      "reference it in their CorrelatedIndications array."),
     MappingStrings {
      "Recommendation.ITU|X733.Notification identifier"} ]
    string IndicationIdentifier;

    [Description (
      "A list of IndicationIdentifiers whose notifications are correlated "
      "with (related to) this one."),
     MappingStrings {
      "Recommendation.ITU|X733.Correlated notifications"} ]
    string CorrelatedIndications[];

    [Description (
      "Free form descriptions of the recommended actions to take to "
      "resolve the cause of the notification."),
     MappingStrings {
      "Recommendation.ITU|X733.Proposed repair actions"} ]
    string RecommendedActions[];
};

//====================================================================
//  CIM_ThresholdIndication
//====================================================================
   [Indication, 
    Description (
     "A subclass of CIM_AlertIndications carrying additional threshold "
     "information related to the notification. This subclass is used "
     "when one of the ProbableCauses is set to 53, \"Threshold "
     "Crossed\".") ]
class CIM_ThresholdIndication : CIM_AlertIndication
{
    [Description (
      "A string describing the threshold or naming the property that "
      "represents the threshold, if modeled in the CIM hierarchy. In "
      "the latter case, the value should be written as <schema name>_"
      "<class name>.<property name>."), 
     MappingStrings {"Recommendation.ITU|X733.Threshold information"} ]
    string ThresholdIdentifier;

    [Description (
      "A string holding the current value of the threshold.  This is "
      "modeled as a string for universal mapping, similar to the "
      "CIM_Sensor properties in the Device Model."),
     MappingStrings {"Recommendation.ITU|X733.Threshold information"} ]
    string ThresholdValue;

    [Description (
      "A string holding the current reading value that exceeds the "
      "threshold.  This is modeled as a string for universal mapping, "
      "similar to the CIM_Sensor properties in the Device Model."),
     MappingStrings {"Recommendation.ITU|X733.Threshold information"} ]
    string ObservedValue;
};

//====================================================================
//  CIM_AlertInstIndication
//====================================================================
   [Indication,
    Description (
     "A subclass of CIM_AlertIndication that embeds a CIM_Inst"
     "Indication. It is used when adding AlertIndication data to a "
     "LifeCycle Indication.") ]
class CIM_AlertInstIndication : CIM_AlertIndication
{
    [Override ("AlertType"), Description (
      "The primary classification of the Indication, defaulted "
      "to 7, \"Model Change\", for this class. This is done "
      "because: 1) the primary purpose of AlertInstIndication is "
      "to add Alert data to a LifeCycle Indication; and 2) LifeCycle "
      "Indications deal with 'model changes'.") ]
    uint16 AlertType = 7;

    [EmbeddedObject, Required, 
     Description (
      "Embeds the InstIndication that is part of this Alert"
      "Indication. Only the properties selected by the Indication"
      "Filter's Query are included.") ]
    string IndObject;
};

//====================================================================
//  CIM_IndicationFilter
//====================================================================
   [Description (
     "CIM_IndicationFilter defines the criteria for generating an "
     "Indication and what data should be returned in the Indication. "
     "It is derived from CIM_ManagedElement to allow modeling the "
     "dependency of the filter on a specific service.") ]
class CIM_IndicationFilter: CIM_ManagedElement
{
    [Key, MaxLen (256), 
     Description (
      "A System's CreationClassName. The Filter is defined in the "
      "context of a CIM_System, where it is hosted or to which it "
      "applies. In a future release, a weak relationship will be "
      "explicitly added to the model. This is not done now to allow "
      "further refinement of the Filter definition and its "
      "inheritance tree. Keys are defined now to allow the class to "
      "be instantiated.") ]
    string SystemCreationClassName;

    [Key, MaxLen (256), 
     Description (
      "A System's Name. The Filter is defined in the "
      "context of a CIM_System, where it is hosted or to which it "
      "applies. In a future release, a weak relationship will be "
      "explicitly added to the model. This is not done now to allow "
      "further refinement of the Filter definition and its "
      "inheritance tree. Keys are defined now to allow the class to "
      "be instantiated.") ]
    string SystemName;

    [Key, MaxLen (256),
     Description (
      "Indicates the name of the class or the subclass used in the "
      "creation of an instance. When used with the other key "
      "properties of this class, it allows all instances of this "
      "class and its subclasses to be uniquely identified.") ]
    string CreationClassName;

    [Key, Description (
      "The name of the filter.") ]
    string Name;

    [Description (
      "The path to a local namespace where the Indications "
      "originate. If NULL, the namespace of the Filter registration "
      "is assumed.") ]
    string SourceNamespace;

    [Required, Description (
      "A query expression that defines the condition(s) under which "
      "Indications will be generated. For some Indication classes, "
      "the query expression may also define the instance properties "
      "to be copied to the CIM_InstIndication's SourceInstance and "
      "PreviousInstance properties. Query language semantics include "
      "projection (e.g., Select), range (e.g., From) and predicate "
      "(e.g., Where)."),
     ModelCorrespondence {"CIM_IndicationFilter.QueryLanguage"} ]
    string Query;

    [Required, Description (
      "The language in which the query is expressed.") ]
    string QueryLanguage;
};

//====================================================================
//  CIM_IndicationHandler
//====================================================================
   [Abstract,
    Description (
     "CIM_IndicationHandler is an abstract superclass describing how "
     "an Indication is to be processd/delivered/'handled'. This may "
     "define a destination and protocol for delivering Indications, "
     "or it may define a process to invoke. This class is derived "
     "from CIM_ManagedElement to allow modeling the "
     "dependency of the Handler on a specific service.") ]
class CIM_IndicationHandler: CIM_ManagedElement 
{
    [Key, MaxLen (256), 
     Description (
      "A System's CreationClassName. The Handler is defined in the "
      "context of a CIM_System, where it is hosted or to which it "
      "applies. In a future release, a weak relationship will be "
      "explicitly added to the model. This is not done now to allow "
      "further refinement of the Handler definition and its "
      "inheritance tree. Keys are defined now to allow the class to "
      "be instantiated.") ]
    string SystemCreationClassName;

    [Key, MaxLen (256), 
     Description (
      "A System's Name. The Handler is defined in the "
      "context of a CIM_System, where it is hosted or to which it "
      "applies. In a future release, a weak relationship will be "
      "explicitly added to the model. This is not done now to allow "
      "further refinement of the Handler definition and its "
      "inheritance tree. Keys are defined now to allow the class to "
      "be instantiated.") ]
    string SystemName;

    [Key, MaxLen (256),
     Description (
      "Indicates the name of the class or the subclass used in the "
      "creation of an instance. When used with the other key properties "
      "of this class, it allows all instances of this class "
      "and its subclasses to be uniquely identified.") ]
    string CreationClassName;

    [Key, MaxLen (256),
     Description (
      "Indicates the name of this Handler.") ]
    string Name;

    [Description (
      "The name of the entity that created and/or maintains this "
      "Handler.") ]
    string Owner;
};

//====================================================================
//  CIM_IndicationHandlerXMLHTTP
//====================================================================
   [Description (
     "CIM_IndicationHandlerXMLHTTP describes the destination for "
     "Indications to be delivered via HTTP, using a cimXML "
     "representation.") ]
class CIM_IndicationHandlerXMLHTTP : CIM_IndicationHandler
{
    [Required, Description (
      "The destination URL to which HTTP/cimXML Indication messages "
      "are to be delivered. The scheme prefix is implied and is not "
      "required, but must be 'http:' if specified.") ]
    string Destination;
};

//====================================================================
//  CIM_IndicationSubscription
//====================================================================
   [Association, 
    Description (
     "CIM_IndicationSubscription describes a flow of Indications. "
     "The flow is specified by the referenced Filter, and directed to "
     "the referenced destination or process in the Handler.") ]
class CIM_IndicationSubscription
{
    [Key, Description (
      "The Filter that defines the criteria and data of the possible "
      "Indications of this subscription.") ]
    CIM_IndicationFilter REF Filter;

    [Key, Description (
      "The Handler addressing delivery of the possible Indications of "
      "this subscription.") ]
    CIM_IndicationHandler REF Handler;

   
};