3.2.4.1.14 CIM Namespace

The CIM binding for WS-Management defines Resource URIs to be used in referencing the CIM objects, as specified in [DMTF-DSP0227] section 5.1.

Web Services Management Protocol Extensions for Windows Server 2003 operating system clients MUST use the http://schemas.dmtf.org/wsman/2005/06/cimv2.9/ namespace prefix followed by the class name when accessing DMTF classes whose CIM namespace is root\hardware.

Web Services Management Protocol Extensions for Windows Server 2003 clients MUST use the following format when accessing all other classes:

<prefix> <cim namespace> "/" <class name>

where <prefix> is http://schemas.microsoft.com/wsman/2005/06/wmi/ and <cim namespace> is the CIM namespace in which "\" has been converted to "/".

[DMTF-DSP0227] section 5.3 defines the "__cimnamespace" selector to specify the CIM namespace that the request is associated with.

Web Services Management Protocol Extensions for Windows Server 2003 clients MUST NOT use the "__cimnamespace" selector.

Note XML namespaces are to be treated as identifiers, and they do not point to any location on the web.