Association Objects¶

CIM defines an association relationship between managed objects. Following text describes the means of retrieving association objects within a given one. An association object is the object, which defines the relationship between two other objects.

Association Instances¶

To get association LMIInstance objects that refer to a particular target object, run following:

> association_objects = instance.references(
...    ResultClass=cls,
...    Role=role,
...    IncludeQualifiers=include_qualifiers,
...    IncludeClassOrigin=include_class_origin,
...    PropertyList=property_lst)
> first_association_object = instance.first_reference(
...    ResultClass=cls,
...    Role=role,
...    IncludeQualifiers=include_qualifiers,
...    IncludeClassOrigin=include_class_origin,
...    PropertyList=property_lst)
>

NOTE: Refer to LMIInstance.references() and LMIInstance.first_reference()

Association Instance Names¶

To get a list of association LMIInstanceName objects, run following:

> association_object_names = instance.reference_names(
...    ResultClass=cls,
...    Role=role)
> first_association_object_name = instance.first_reference_name(
...    ResultClass=cls,
...    Role=role)
>

NOTE: Refer to LMIInstance.reference_names() and LMIInstance.first_reference_name().