HP WBEM Providers for Linux Installation Guide and Release Notes

HP System Firmware
Inventory Provider
The HP System Firmware Inventory Provider returns information
about the system's firmware, which is returned by the system
firmware for both RHEL and SLES.
HP WBEM Providers for Linux is provided in the HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for
Linux Support Pack, which is available for download at:
http://www.hp.com/go/integritylinuxessentials
Supported Operating Systems
HP WBEM Providers for Linux is supported on the following Linux distributions:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
□ RHEL4U4 (OpenPegasus V2.5) and later
□ RHEL5 (OpenPegasus V2.5) and later
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
□ SLES 9 SP3 (OpenPegasus V2.4)
□ SLES) 10 (OpenPegasus V2.5) and later service packs
Supported Hardware
HP WBEM Providers for Linux have been installed, tested, and are supported on servers supported
by the HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux. For a list of supported servers, see the
HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux User's Guide at:
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/5992-3193/index.html
Integration Software
The primary method of integrating the HP WBEM Providers for Linux product into your system
is through HP SIM V5.0. In addition, the providers also operate with any client that can initiate
requests using WBEM.
For more information, see the HP Systems Insight Manager website:
http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim
Coexistence with other HP Products
HP WBEM Providers for Linux can coexist with existing installations of HP Insight Management
Agents (SNMP agents).
Updating HP WBEM Providers for Linux
Updates to HP WBEM Providers for Linux are provided through the HP Integrity Essentials
Foundation Pack for Linux Support Pack, which is available for download at:
http://www.hp.com/go/integritylinuxessentials
WBEM Versus SNMP Nomenclature
WBEM is a set of standards defining manageability protocols and schema for modelling systems,
networks, applications and services. It is intended to be a significant improvement on the SNMP
standard especially in the areas of modeling and security.
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