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 on-line, yet the Managed Element is neither OK nor in one of the other states. CIM does not address logs at the present time. What these have in common is that they define a format for data content and syntax. However, you can describe that logs exist.
Various vendors use different indicators of failure.
However, the common aspect is that failure is predicted in order to allow recovery of data, replacement of hardware, or other repair and alerting actions before the hardware loss is critical. This is an area currently under investigation. The MOF compiler does not handle qualifiers in the general case. This will be corrected in a future release. All rights reserved.