Dell EMC OpenManage CIM Reference Guide Version 9.1

The CIM_Dependency class is an association used to establish dependency relationships between two managed system elements. The CIM_Dependency class described in the figure below does not have a parent class because it is a relationship or association between two elements.

Each class derived from the CIM_Dependency class has an element called an antecedent that represents the independent object in this association, and another element called a dependent that represents the object that is dependent on the antecedent. For example, consider two managed system elements: Chassis1 and PowerSupply3. Chassis1 is the antecedent element because a managed power supply would always be either contained in, or grouped with, a chassis.