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

Glossary
HP WBEM (Web-Based Enterprise Management)
Glossary110
HP WBEM (Web-Based Enterprise
Management)
An initiative based on a set
of management and Internet standard
technologies developed to unify the
management of enterprise computing
environments. HP WBEM provides the
ability for the industry to deliver a
well-integrated set of standard-based
management tools leveraging the emerging
technologies such as CIM and XML.
HP WBEM Services A Hewlett-Packard
product that uses WBEM to manage HP-UX
and Linux system resources.
web server Full-service web servers act as
HTTP servers. In addition, they have many
other capabilities, like running CGI scripts.
Understanding the distinction between a
limited-service HTTP server and a
full-service Web server is critical to
understanding security on HP WBEM
Services for HP-UX. HP WBEM Services
uses its own embedded HTTP server (a
light-weight server), not a web server.
Acknowledgement: Much of this information
was gathered from: http://dmtf.org/
education/cimtutorial.php, and much
more information is available there.