HP WBEM Services for HP-UX System Administrator Guide

A CIM message is a well-defined request or response data packet used to exchange information
between the CIM applications. Following are the types of CIM messages:
• CIM Operation Messages
A CIM Operation Message is used to invoke an operation on the target CIM namespace.
• CIM Export Messages
A CIM Export Message is used to communicate information about a CIM namespace or
element that is foreign to the target. A CIM Export Message is informational only and does
not define an operation on the target CIM namespace or even imply the existence of a target
namespace.
A CIM listener receives CIM Export requests, such as indications, and coordinates the distribution
of requests among one or more consumers, and then sends the CIM export messages.
NOTE: For standalone CIM listeners, the listener waits at an application-specific port to receive
the CIM export messages.
Indication Consumption
A CIM Indication Consumer "consumes" the CIM encapsulated in a CIM export message. For
example, a Consumer might store an indication in an event database for further processing. An
Indication Consumer registers with the CIM listener to receive indications.
For more information on troubleshooting WBEM Indications, see Chapter 5 (page 42).
HP WBEM Services executable scripts
This section elaborates the commands, executable scripts, and daemon processes that are available
with HP WBEM Services.
Table 1 lists the commands, executable scripts, and daemon processes that are available with HP
WBEM Services for HP-UX. The table also indicates the version that the executable scripts are
available with, along with the permissions required to use them.
Table 1 Commands, Executable Scripts, and Daemon Processes in HP WBEM Services
To Perform
Required
PermissionVersionTypeName
Authorizes users for a specified namespace.rootA.02.07Commandcimauth
Use this command to add, modify, or remove
authorization per user, per namespace. You can
also assign Read or Write permissions. Note
that assigning Write permission does not
automatically include Read permission.
Use this command to list all authorizations that
are configured on the CIM Server.
This command can be used only if the property
enableNamespaceAuthorization is set to
true. To set this property to true, use the
cimconfig command.
To use this command, the CIM Server must be
running.
For more information, see cimauth (1M).
To set, clear, or view the properties of the CIM
Server.
rootA.02.07Commandcimconfig
With this command, an operation using the
“current” option changes the value immediately.
However, an operation using the “planned”
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