HP WBEM Services for HP-UX and Linux System Administrator's Guide

Glossary
Desktop Management Interface (DMI)
Glossary106
The core model is both domain- and
platform-independent. Also see common
model and extension schema.
Desktop Management Interface (DMI)
An initiative by the DMTF. The DMI allows
desktop computers, hardware and software
products, and peripherals whether they are
standalone systems or linked into networks
to be manageable and intelligent. It allows
them to communicate their system resource
requirements and to coexist in a manageable
PC system. The DMI is independent of
operating system and processor, enabling the
development of manageable PC products and
applications across platforms.
Desktop Management Task Force
(DMTF)
An industry-wide consortium
committed to making computing devices
easier to use, understand, configure and
manage. (www.dmtf.org)
domain The class to which a property or
method belongs. For example, if status is a
property of Logical Device, it is said to
belong to the Logical Device domain.
extensible markup language (XML) A
simplified subset of SGML that offers
powerful and extensible data modeling
capabilities. An XML Document is a
collection of data represented in XML. An
XML Schema is a grammar that describes
the structure of an XML Document.
extension schema The third layer of the
CIM schema, which includes
platform-specific extensions of the CIM
schema such as Microsoft® Windows NT®,
UNIX®, and Microsoft® ExchangeServer.
Also see common model and core model.
extrinsic method A method defined on a
CIM Class in some Schema that is unique to
that class (versus intrinsic methods which
apply across all classes). Also see intrinsic
method.
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) An
application-level protocol for distributed,
collaborative, hypermedia information
systems. It is a generic stateless protocol
that can be used for many tasks through
extensions of its request methods, error
codes and headers.
HTTP Server HP WBEM Services uses a
small-footprint special-services
“light-weight” server that processes HTTP
requests and returns standard HTTP
responses. The server is not intended as a
replacement for a web server. The server
does not serve up HTML web pages and does
not run CGI applications.
indication An operation executed as a
result of some action such as the creation,
modification, or deletion of an instance,
access to an instance, or modification or
access to a property. Indications can also
result from the passage of a specified period
of time. An indication typically results in an
event.
inheritance The relationship that describes
how classes and instances are derived from
parent classes, or superclasses. A class can
spawn a new subclass, also called a child
class. A subclass contains all the methods
and properties of its parent class.