Associated Objects

CIM defines an association relationship between managed objects. Following text describes the means of retrieving associated objects within a given one.

Associated Instances

To get a list of associated LMIInstance objects with a given object, run following:

> associated_objects = instance.associators(
...    AssocClass=cls,
...    ResultClass=cls,
...    ResultRole=role,
...    IncludeQualifiers=include_qualifiers,
...    IncludeClassOrigin=include_class_origin,
...    PropertyList=property_lst)
> first_associated_object = instance.first_associator(
...    AssocClass=cls,
...    ResultClass=cls,
...    ResultRole=role,
...    IncludeQualifiers=include_qualifiers,
...    IncludeClassOrigin=include_class_origin,
...    PropertyList=property_lst))

NOTE: Refer to LMIInstance.associators() and LMIInstance.first_associator().

Associated Instance Names

To get a list of associated LMIInstanceName objects with a given object, run following:

> associated_object_names = instance.associator_names(
...    AssocClass=cls,
...    ResultClass=cls,
...    Role=role,
...    ResultRole=result_role)
> first_associated_object_name = instance.first_associator_name(
...    AssocClass=cls,
...    ResultClass=cls,
...    Role=role,
...    ResultRole=result_role)
>

NOTE: Refer to LMIInstance.associator_names() and LMIInstance.first_associator_name().