HP-UX WBEM Kernel Provider Release Notes (5900-1466, March 2011)

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This document discusses the most recent product information on HP-UX Kernel providers that is
supported on HP-UX 11i v2 and HP-UX 11i v3 operating systems. Table 1 (page 4) lists the
product versions for which the document is applicable.
Table 1 Documentation Support for Kernel Provider
VersionOperating System
C.05.00.03.01HP-UX 11i v3
This document addresses the following topics:
• “Announcement” (page 4)
• “HP-UX WBEM Kernel Providers” (page 4)
• “Installing the Kernel Providers” (page 5)
• “Using Kernel Providers” (page 6)
• “Related Information” (page 7)
• “Software Availability in Native Languages” (page 7)
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. In the
current release, the Kernel provider depot contains Kernel Configuration provider related fileset,
Swap provider related fileset, and Boot and Crash dump provider related fileset.
This provider works in the WBEM environment. The Kernel providers include the following providers:
• kctune provider — This provider enables you to obtain information related to the kernel tunable
parameters. The tunable parameter values can be modified using the modifyInstance
method supported by the provider on HP-UX 11i v3 OS.
• kcmodule provider — This provider enables you to obtain information related to the kernel
module parameters. The module states can be modified using the modifyInstance method
supported by the provider on HP-UX 11i v3 OS.
• Swap provider — This provider enables you to obtain information related to the swap space
available on the system.
NOTE: Each swap device configured on the system has a subset of attributes. For more
information about the swap device properties and their attributes, see the Swap Provider
Datasheet.
• Boot provider — This provider enables you to obtain information related to the boot variables
in stable storage.
• Crash dump provider — This provider enables you to obtain crash dump configuration details
of the current system.
NOTE: The Boot and Crash dump providers are supported only on HP-UX 11i v3 system.
HP-UX WBEM Kernel Providers
The Kernel Configuration providers, Swap provider, and Boot and Crash dump providers support
the following features:
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