HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider Release Notes, September 2010

HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider
HP-UX WBEM LAN provider is used by client applications to retrieve information about LAN
cards present on the system. Using this provider, the WBEM clients can retrieve details about
various attributes of a LAN card.
The features of LAN provider are described below:
• Reports data for the subsystem.
• Supports HP-UX WBEM services to provide web access to HP-UX data for management
clients.
• Used by HP Software Management clients, HP System Insight Manager (SIM), HP System
Management HomePage (SMH), and others.
• Supports WBEM 2.5 services security features to control access to HP-UX data.
• Supports Consolidated Status Provider (CSP) feature on HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2 and
HP-UX 11i v3 OS. This feature reports the consolidated status of LAN cards available on
the system.
• Supports Indication Provider (IP) feature on HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2 and HP-UX 11i
v3 OS. This feature generates indications in WBEM format and delivers the events to the
cimserver.
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