OperatingSystem class (Provider API)

The OperatingSystem class represents an executing instance of some operating system. It also captures the install aspect via the SoftwareResource inheritance relation. OperatingSystem is a type of SoftwareHost that executes on bare metal, rather than on some other SoftwareHost.

OperatingSystem class APIs

The following tables list the basic APIs, operation APIs, and relationship APIs for the OperatingSystem class.

Basic APIs

Name	HTTP method	URI	Description
create	`POST`	`csm/OperatingSystem`	Creates a `OperatingSystem` object.

Operation APIs

Name	HTTP method	URI	Description
destructor	`POST`	`csm/OperatingSystem/destructor`	Destructor for an `OperatingSystem` class object
start	`POST`	`csm/OperatingSystem/guid/start`	Start the object specified by the <guid> in the URI.
stop	`POST`	`csm/OperatingSystem/guid/stop`	Stop the object specified by the <guid> in the URI.

Relationship APIs

The OperatingSystem class has no relationship APIs.

OperatingSystem class relationships and attributes

The following tables list the relationships and attributes of the OperatingSystem class.

Relationships

Name	Type	Multi- plicity	Description
`server`	`Server`	1	Server associated with the operating system instance
`applicationSoftware`	`ApplicationSoftware`	0..*
`hostedRunningSoftware`	`RunningSoftware`	0..*

Attributes

Name	Type	Multi- plicity	Description
`manufacturer`	`String`	1	Name of the software manufacturer
`patchLevel`	`String`	0..1	Patch level of the software
`productCatalogId`	`String`	0..1	Product catalog identifier for the software
`productName`	`String`	1	Name of the software product
`version`	`String`	0..1	Software version
`externalID`	`String`	0..1	Identifier used for the object by an external provider
`owner`	`String`	0..1	Name of the owner of the object
`reconciliationID`	`String`	0..1	Reconciliation identity value for the object from the BMC Atrium CMDB
`tokenID`	`String`	0..1	Token identifier
`description`	`String`	0..1	Text that describes the object
`guid`	`String`	1	Globally unique identifier for the object
`labels`	`String`	0..*
`modifiedDate`	`Date`	0..1	Date the Cloudobject was modified
`name`	`String`	1	Human-readable name of the object