HP-UX WBEM Kernel Provider Release Notes, March 2008

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.
The Kernel Providers enable you to obtain information about kernel parameters, swap space
parameters, and boot and crash-dump subsytem parameters available on the system. 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.
• kcmodule provider — This provider enables you to obtain information related to the kernel
module parameters.
• 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 and Crash Dump provider — This provider enables you to obtain information related
to the boot variables in stable storage and crash dump configuration details of the current
system.
NOTE: The Boot and Crash Dump provider is supported only on HP-UX 11i v3.
Features
The Kernel Configuration Providers, Swap Provider, and Boot and Dump Providers support the
following features:
• Supports Instance provider feature
— This feature provides information about kernel tunable parameters and swap space
related parameters.
• 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
In addition to the features listed above, the following method is supported by the Swap Provider:
• Supports getProperty method
— The getProperty method returns a single property value of an instance in the class.
Installing the Kernel Providers
The Kernel 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 HP-UX WBEM Kernel Providers website
at:
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