Creating and Delivering Indications

When a client application subscribes for indications of CIM events by creating an instance of the CIM_IndicationSubscription class, the CIM Object Manager forwards the request to the appropriate provider. If the provider implements the EventProvider interface, the CIM Object Manager notifies the provider when to start sending indications for the specified events by calling the provider's activateFilter method, and it notifies the provider when to stop sending indications for the specified events by calling the provider's deActivateFilter method.

The provider responds to the CIM Object Manager's requests by creating and delivering an indication each time the provider creates, modifies, or deletes an instance. A provider typically defines a flag variable that is set when the CIM Object Manager calls the activateFilter method and cleared when the CIM Object Manager calls the deActivateFilter method. Then in each method that creates, modifies, or deletes an instance, the provider checks the status of the activate filter flag. If the flag is set, the provider creates an indication containing the created CIM instance object and uses the deliverEvent method to return the indication to the CIM Object Manager. If the flag is not set, the provider does not create and deliver an indication of the event.