HP-UX WBEM Kernel Configuration (KC) Providers Release Notes

Announcement
Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) is an industry wide initiative to unify the
management of system, networks, and applications across multiple and diverse vendor
environments. The KC Providers is used to obtain information about kernel parameters and
works in the WBEM environment. The KC Providers include following providers:
kctune provider This provider enables you to obtain information related to the kernel
tunable parameters.
kcmodule provider This provider enables you to obtain information related to the kernel
module parameters.
Features
The KC Providers support the following features:
Supports Instance provider feature
This feature provides information about kernel tunable parameters or kernel command.
Supports enumerateInstances, enumerateInstanceNames, and getInstance methods
— The enumerateInstances method returns all instances of class with all the properties
and their respective values.
— The enumerateInstanceNames method returns the object path of all instances of the
class.
— The getInstance method returns the requested instance with all the properties and their
respective values. There will always be only one instance.
Supports multiple client instances
Installing KC Providers
The KC providers depot is available for download at:
http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/dl_hpux.html#managed.
For more information on installing the providers, see the Website at: http://h20293.www2.hp.com/
Software Requirements
The KC providers require WBEM Services Version A.02.05 to be installed on HP-UX 11i v3 system
to gather information about the subsystems.
Hardware Requirements
Table 1-1 lists hardware requirements for installing KC providers.
Table 1-1 KC Providers Supported Platform
Mode of DeliverySupported OSProduct NameProvider
ISUHP-UX 11i v3KernelProvidersKC Providers
Using KC Providers
Users can obtain information about kernel parameters using KC Provider from command-line
interface (CLI).
To obtain kernel module related data, enter the following command at the command prompt:
$ kcmodule -P ALL -a
To obtain kernel tunable related data, enter the following command at the command prompt:
$ kctune -P ALL -a
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