The General tab contains fields that identifies and describes the message.

Messages General Tab

Name

A name of the message, for human consumption. The attribute value should be unique within the message registry (the MESSAGE_ID is required to be unique, for programmatic access) and should be a brief descriptive text. For example, "HTTP header malformed in POST operation" is preferrable over "protocol error".

Experimental

An indicator on whether or not the message is considered experimental. A value of "true"(checked) means the message is experimental. Experimental messages may be removed or changed incompatibly in future revisions of the message registry.

Message ID

The message identifier. The message identifier consists of the PREFIX and SEQUENCE_NUMBER attributes. The combination of these two attribute values shall be unique across all message registries owned by a particular owning entity (as identified by the OWNING_ENTITY element). The value of the MessageID property in CIM_Error and CIM_AlertIndication instances conveying a message from a message registry shall be set to the concatenation of the PREFIX and SEQUENCE_NUMBER attribute values, as specified in the message registry (i.e. no further padding or adjustment of these values takes place).

Message Description

A description of the message. The description is targeted to developers of an implementation that produces or consumes the message. It does not need to be well suited as an explanation for human consumers of the message. The description should cover the purpose of the message and its usage. A profile may further constrain the purpose or the usage of the message within the domain of the profile. Note that each dynamic element within the message can have a description on its own, so this information should not be repeated in this element.

Fixed Message Instance Values

Requirements for specific property values to be set in CIM_Error and CIM_AlertIndication instances conveying a message from a message registry. Such instances may have additional properties set, as defined in the CIM Schema or further constrained in profiles using messages. Each child element of this element corresponds to a specific property in these instances. The property value to be set is defined as the element content of the child element. The requirement for setting the property to that value is defined in the EXISTENCE_IS attribute of the child element. There shall be at most one occurence of this element for CIM_Error instances (TYPE="ERROR"), and at most one for CIM_AlertIndication instances (TYPE="ALERT"). If there is no occurence of this element for a particular type of class, instances of that class may be produced, they are just not further constrained to specific property values.