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

Client Implementation

Discovery

Chapter 592

name will begin enumeration at the root level in the namespace. A value

of true will return all derived classes. The CIM_ERR_INVALID_CLASS

status will be returned if the speciﬁed class does not exist.

Thus, for a client to discover if schema of interest is supported on the

target platform, it can perform enumerateClassNames operations for the

classes that it would use. If the client is capable of using properties or

methods in subclasses, the enumerateClasses operation can be used to

obtain the properties and methods deﬁned for the subclasses.