HP WBEM Services Version A.02.07 Release Notes, September 2008

NOTE: For HP-UX 11i v1, these three providers are NOT automatically registered
because you must install a patch first. See Required and Recommended Patches below.
Running the HP WBEM Services CIM Server
After installation, the HP WBEM Services CIM Server process (cimserver) is active. To
restart it, first stop cimserver with the cimserver -s command. Use the cimserver
command, with no options to start the cimserver daemon on the system where the
command is issued.
Once the CIM Server has been installed, the CIM Server will be automatically started
as part of the system reboot process.
When starting the CIM Server using the cimserver command, the
<configProperty=value> syntax can be used to set configuration property values
to be used by the CIM Server. It is important to note that the values specified in the
cimserver command apply only to the current CIM Server process that gets started.
The cimconfig command can also be used to set configuration property values to
apply each time the CIM Server is started.
WARNING! By default, the CIM Server configuration property
forceProviderProcesses is set to true. Even though in HP-UX 11i v1 you can
configure this property to be false, this is not a supported configuration. However,
if you must change this value from its default setting, please contact your HP Support
representative, so we can better understand your requirements.
To see if the CIM Server is running, issue the following command to check for the
cimserver process: ps -ef | grep cimserver. You should see three processes:
cimserver, cimservera, and cimserverd (cimserverd is a daemon process that
monitors cimserver to ensure it remains available).
WARNING! It is strongly recommended NOT to disable cimserver at startup. Doing
so, will impact other HP products such as; iCOD/iCAP, HP SIM, VSE, and System Fault
Management, as these HP solutions rely on HP WBEM Services (cimserver) to be
running.
Removing HP WBEM Services
Before removing the software, back up any files that you want to keep (i.e. repository,
log files, configuration files, certificate files, etc.). If they are removed or overwritten
during the re-installation, you can restore them.
To remove the HP WBEM Services software, run the HP-UX swremove command.
# swremove WBEMServices
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