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

HP WBEM Services Executables
HP WBEM Services Executables
Chapter 330
The list option can be executed by any user. You must have local root
permission to use the other options. You can use cimprovider only
when CIM Server is running.
• cimserver - start or gracefully stop HP WBEM Services. After
installation, you must start CIM Server with this command the first
time. If the system is rebooted after that, CIM Server is intended to
automatically restart. However, there are three times that the CIM
Server can only be started by an operator command:
— The first time after HP WBEM Services installs
— If the server was stopped by an operator’s command
— If an operator disables both the HTTPS and HTTP connections in
the planned configuration. For a planned configuration to take
take effect, an operator stops and restarts CIM Server. However,
it cannot restart with both ports disabled. Therefore, when you
enter the command to restart, it must include an option to enable
one (and only one) of the connections.
Use the -v option to see the version number of the CIM Server. Use
the -h option for help with command syntax.
At shutdown, you can specify a value for the shutdown property on
the cimserver command line. This value will be used only for this
shutdown. For example, if the system is stressed, you may want to
allow this shutdown an unusually long time.
At startup, you can specify several property and value pairs on the
cimserver command line. These values will be used for the current
process.
After a restart, the values will return to their previous settings. See
Chapter 5 for the cimconfig command and a list of settable
properties. For example, if the system is stressed, you can stop the
CIM Server and specify a temporary shutdown timeout, longer than
the usual.
If you try to start CIM Server when it is already running, no action is
taken. You will see this message: Error: Bind failed. Failed to bind to
socket.
You must have root permissions to use cimserver to stop or start.
You can stop or get a version number with cimserver only when CIM
Server is running. You start only when CIM Server is not running.