HP WBEM Services for HP-UX System Administrator Guide (766166-001, March 2014)

Contents
HP secure development lifecycle......................................................................5
1 Introduction to HP WBEM Services................................................................6
HP WBEM Services and common standards.................................................................................6
Common Information Model..................................................................................................6
CIM in Extensible Markup Language......................................................................................7
CIM operations over HTTP....................................................................................................7
HP WBEM Services architecture..................................................................................................7
How HP WBEM Services works?................................................................................................9
Client requests.....................................................................................................................9
Providers.............................................................................................................................9
Processing requests............................................................................................................10
HP WBEM indications........................................................................................................13
HP WBEM Services executable scripts..................................................................................14
2 Installing and setting up HP WBEM Services................................................18
Compatibility information........................................................................................................18
HP WBEM Services compatibility tools.................................................................................18
Backing up repositories and files..............................................................................................19
Prerequisites...........................................................................................................................20
Installing HP WBEM Services...................................................................................................20
Upgrading HP WBEM Services................................................................................................22
Downgrading HP WBEM Services............................................................................................22
Re-installing HP WBEM Services...............................................................................................22
Providers and clients for HP WBEM Services..............................................................................22
Providers available with HP WBEM Services..........................................................................22
Clients available with HP WBEM Services.............................................................................25
Before starting HP WBEM Services...........................................................................................26
Starting and stopping the CIM server........................................................................................27
Using the cimserver command.............................................................................................28
Verifying status of Cimserver ...............................................................................................28
Using the cimserverd daemon..............................................................................................28
Using the cimconfig command.............................................................................................29
Using the cimtrust command................................................................................................29
CIM server properties.........................................................................................................30
Configuring Insight Remote Support (IRS) for WBEM Services..................................................32
Maintaining the repository.......................................................................................................32
Removing HP WBEM Services..................................................................................................33
3 Security considerations..............................................................................34
Guidelines for using SNMP, PRM, and WLM..............................................................................34
Configuring SSL......................................................................................................................34
HP WBEM Services configuration options security disclaimer........................................................35
Default security information.................................................................................................35
4 Authentication methods in HP WBEM Services.............................................36
User authentication.................................................................................................................36
Local user authentication.....................................................................................................36
Remote user authentication..................................................................................................37
HTTPS and HTTP.....................................................................................................................38
Managing certificates.............................................................................................................39
Importing server certificates to the Trust Store.........................................................................40
Verifying certificates...........................................................................................................40
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