The Common Information model (CIM) consists of a number of basic objects defined in the CIM specification. This includes:

• Classes CLASS
• Instances of Classes \Rf{REFERENCE}
• Qualifiers QUALIFIER
• Properties
• Methods
• Arrays

Pegasus implements representations of these objects in C++ classes and provides methods for creation, manipulation, and deletion of the objects.

In addition, Pegasus implements a number of the key concepts built into CIM as objects including:

• Scope
• Flavor
• Object Path
• etc.

Much of the programming of the Pegasus object broker, clients, and in particular providers and service extensions in the Pegasus envrinment depends on the use of these C++ representations of CIM Objects and concepts.

Each Pegasus CIM C++ Object representation includes:

• TConstructors and destructors
• Methods for manipulation of sub-objects. Thus, the class and instance classes provide for manipulation of the property, qualifier, and method objects that are contained in these classes.
• Methods for finding sub-objects. Thus, the class and instance classes provide for finding property, qualifier, and method objects within an instnace of a CIMClass or CIMInstance. These methods are generally built around defining the name of the object to be found and having an index to that object returned.
• Methods for comparison
• Methods for cloning
• Methods to convert the object to XML
• Methods to convert the object to MOF (Planned)

There is a class for every major CIM object and concept as shown in the table in CIM Object Table

Alphabetic index Hierarchy of classes