HP WBEM Services Software Developer's Kit for HP-UX Provider and Client Developer's Guide A.01

Client Implementation
Client Development Best Practices
Chapter 5104
Prototyping with wbemexec
When analyzing the appropriate techniques for schema navigation and
determining the type of data available on a managed system, it is often
useful to prototype the functionality using the general-purpose
wbemexec client included with HP WBEM Services for HP-UX.
wbemexec takes a CIM-XML request from a file or standard input, sends
it to a CIM server, receives the response, and displays it to standard
output.
Thus, a client developer can encode various CIM operations of interest
(e.g. enumerateInstanceNames, getInstance, or createInstance) in
XML and observe the CIM Server/provider's response to the operations.
The CIM-XML requests can be executed against multiple target platforms
to get a better understanding of supported schema, data volume, data
availability, and provider performance. Revisions can then be made to
the information being retrieved and to the way of navigating available
schema to improve the client design. Once these adjustments have been
made, the client developer can then incorporate the lessons learned from
this prototype into the client implementation based on the client APIs.
More information on wbemexec is available in the man page included
with HP WBEM Services for HP-UX.