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

Glossary
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An industry wide standards organization committed to making
computing resources and environments easier to use, understand,
configure, and manage. (web site http://www.dmtf.org/)
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
A simplified subset of SGML that offers powerful and extensible data
modeling capabilities. An XML Document is a collection of data
represented in XML. An XML Schema is a grammar that describes the
structure of an XML Document.
Extrinsic Method
A method defined on a CIM Class in some Schema that is unique to that
class (versus intrinsic methods which apply across all classes). See also
intrinsic method.
HTTP
(Hypertext Transfer Protocol) An application-level protocol for
distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. It is a
generic stateless protocol that can be used for many tasks through
extensions of its request methods, error codes and headers.
Instance
A representation of a real-world managed object that belongs to a
particular class, or a particular occurrence of an event.
Intrinsic Method
A method defined for the purpose of modeling a CIM operation. Standard
intrinsic methods (such as enumerateInstances, getInstance,
modifyInstance) are relevant to all classes. See also extrinsic method.
Itanium Processor Family (Itanium-2™)
Also called IPF or IA-64. Systems based on Intel's new 64-bit processor
architecture.
Lightweight HTTP Server
A small footprint server that processes HTTP requests and returns
standard HTTP responses. The server is not intended as a replacement
for a web server. The server does not serve up HTML web pages and does
not run CGI applications. .
Managed object