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Win32_ComponentCategory class

The Win32_ComponentCategory WMI class represents a component category. Component categories are groups of Component Object Model (COM) classes with a defined functionality set shared between them. A client using these interfaces queries the registry for the category title and unique identifier called CategoryID, which is created from a globally unique identifier (GUID).

The following syntax is simplified from Managed Object Format (MOF) code and includes all of the inherited properties. Properties are listed in alphabetic order, not MOF order.

Syntax

class Win32_ComponentCategory : CIM_LogicalElement
{
  string   Caption;
  string   CategoryId;
  string   Description;
  datetime InstallDate;
  string   Name;
  string   Status;
};

Members

The Win32_ComponentCategory class has these types of members:

Properties

Properties

The Win32_ComponentCategory class has these properties.

Caption

Data type: string
Access type: Read-only
Qualifiers: MaxLen (64)

Short textual description of the object. This property is inherited from CIM_ManagedSystemElement.

CategoryId

Data type: string
Access type: Read-only
Qualifiers: MaxLen (16) , Key, MaxLen (16)

GUID for this component category.

Description

Data type: string
Access type: Read-only

Description of the object. This property is inherited from CIM_ManagedSystemElement.

InstallDate

Data type: datetime
Access type: Read-only

Object was installed. This property does not need a value to indicate that the object is installed. This property is inherited from CIM_ManagedSystemElement.

Name

Data type: string
Access type: Read-only

Descriptive name of this component category. This property is inherited from CIM_ManagedSystemElement.

Status

Data type: string
Access type: Read-only
Qualifiers: MaxLen (10)

Current status of the object. Various operational and nonoperational statuses can be defined. Operational statuses include: "OK", "Degraded", and "Pred Fail" (an element, such as a SMART-enabled hard disk drive, may be functioning properly but predicting a failure in the near future). Nonoperational statuses include: "Error", "Starting", "Stopping", and "Service". The latter, "Service", could apply during mirror-resilvering of a disk, reload of a user permissions list, or other administrative work. Not all such work is online, yet the managed element is neither "OK" nor in one of the other states. This property is inherited from CIM_ManagedSystemElement.

The values are:

"OK"

"Error"

"Degraded"

"Unknown"

"Pred Fail"

"Starting"

"Stopping"

"Service"

Remarks

The Win32_ComponentCategory class is derived from CIM_LogicalElement.

Examples

For script code examples, see WMI Tasks for Scripts and Applications and the TechNet ScriptCenter Script Repository.

For C++ code examples, see WMI C++ Application Examples.

Requirements

Minimum supported client	Windows 2000 Professional [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server	Windows 2000 Server [desktop apps only]
Namespace	\root\CIMV2
MOF	Cimwin32.mof
DLL	Cimwin32.dll

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