HP WBEM Providers for Linux Installation Guide and Release Notes

The following WBEM related documents may be of interest:
• Specification for CIM Operations over HTTP—Describes the interface used to fetch and modify
managed objects found at:
http://www.dmtf.org/standards/published_documents/DSP0200_1.3.0.pdf
• The CIM Document Type Definition—Describes the XML format used by the WBEM protocol
found at:
http://www.dmtf.org/standards/wbem/CIM_DTD_V22.dtd
• Web-Based Enterprise Management—Describes how to use WBEM found at:
http://www.wbemsolutions.com/tutorials/DMTF/wbem.html
The following table provides a brief list of commonly used WBEM terms and their corresponding
SNMP terms.
SNMP TermWBEM Term
SNMP Master AgentOpenPegasus Common Information Model Object
Manager (CIMOM)
SNMP subagentProvider
SNMP ObjectProperty
Management Information Base (MIB)Common Information Model (CIM) schema
TrapIndication
SNMP Object definitionCIM class
SNMP sends messages over unencrypted UDP datagrams on ports 161 and 162; WBEM sends
messages over HTTP encrypted using SSL on TCP port 5989.
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