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

Glossary
Appendix F 149
Provides basic provider information to software professionals who will
design, implement, enhance, and/or support client applications that will
use this provider. It contains information about what this provider does,
what interfaces it uses, how to install it and what platforms and
operating systems are supported. An example and template are included
in this manual.
Provider Registration
A provider must be registered with the CIM Server so that the CIM
Server will know what properties and methods it supports. A special
object is created during registration to relate the information about the
provider to the classes in the CIM schema that the provider supports.
Refer to the section on Provider Registration and Naming for detailed
information.
Repository
The CIM Server repository contains the definitions of classes and
instances that describe managed objects and the relationships among
them. The repository is not available for use by clients or providers for
static or persistent data storage.
SAN-aware
Storage Area Network aware.
Schema
A collection of class definitions that describe managed objects in a
particular environment.
Simple Operation
A CIM request that requires the invocation of a single method.
SOHO
"Small Office/Home Office", a class of products which are typically more
powerful and more expensive than those sold to consumers, but smaller
than those generally used by large institutions.
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
More information can be found on the Object Management Group web
site at http://www.omg.org/. A UML diagram is used to visualize an
object-oriented concept such as the hierarchy of CIM classes, where each
box represents a class of object. The arrows may be thought of as
meaning "is-a-kind-of", so that a Human is a kind of Primate. Humans,