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

Overview of HP WBEM Services
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1 Overview of HP WBEM Services
This chapter introduces HP WBEM Services: what it is, where it comes
from, and how you can learn more about it.
HP WBEM Services acts as an information broker; it is a way that
providers and clients can communicate.
A provider is developed to offer access to a resource. The provider defines
the resource and tells HP WBEM Services what information they will
provide to clients, and what actions they will perform for clients.
Clients send requests to WBEM to get information about, and access to,
the registered resources.
HP WBEM Services runs on HP-UX and Linux operating systems.
However, communication is not limited to those platforms. The
information is stored and exchanged using widely accepted WBEM
standards developed by the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc.
(see http://www.dmtf.org). HP WBEM Services is based on The Open
Group’s Pegasus Open Source Software (OSS) Project (see
http://www.opengroup.org/pegasus).
Because information is formatted for the web, the exchange is not
platform-dependent. WBEM-standard products can provide information
about resources on several operating systems and platforms.
To understand more about WBEM standards and design, go to
http://www.dmtf.org/education and begin the tutorial for CIM
(Common Interface Model).
The CIM operations that HP WBEM Services supports are listed in
Appendix B.