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

How Does HP WBEM Services Work?
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2 How Does HP WBEM Services
Work?
This chapter gives you an idea of how HP WBEM Services provide a
management infrastructure so clients and providers can communicate.
It outlines how providers register their resources’ properties (attributes
or characteristics) and methods (capabilities, operations, or actions) with
HP WBEM Services.
It gives an overview of how clients use HP WBEM Services to make a
request about a resource and receive a response. Chapter 4 has an
example of an actual request sent by a client, and the response it
received.
HP WBEM Services can receive requests from clients on many different
kinds of systems and platforms, as long as the requests conform to the
DMTF CIM-XML standard. HP WBEM Services processes the clients’
requests, and passes it to the appropriate providers. When providers
receive requests, they pass information back to HP WBEM Services.
Then HP WBEM Service sends a response back to the client.