HP WBEM Services Version A.02.09 Release Notes, First Edition, September 2009

• From this release, the CIM Repository (/var/opt/wbem/repository) is a database instead
of file-based repository. This change is done to increase the robustness of CIM repository.
• wbemassist - A command-based troubleshooting utility to identify problems related to HP
WBEM Services on the managed nodes. This utility can be used to troubleshoot configuration
or installation problems as well as to determine if the CIM server is working appropriately
or not. In this release, this tool can be used to conduct basic tests to determine if HP WBEM
Services is configured accurately, and runs as expected.
This utility is part of the WBEM-TOOLS fileset, and is located in the /opt/wbem/sbin
directory.
Table 1-1 HP WBEM Services Releases
HP-UX VersionWBEM Version
11i v2
11i v3
A.02.09
11i v1A.02.07.06
IMPORTANT: HP WBEM Services version A.02.09 is not available on HP-UX 11i v1. From this
release onwards, no new features or enhancements for HP WBEM Services will be addressed on
HP-UX 11i v1. Only defects that are critical in nature will be addressed.
HP WBEM Services version A.02.09 product contains the following:
• Support for WBEM Indications
• The HP WBEM Services run-time environment
— Binary command line executables
— Shared libraries
— Configuration files
— CIM schemas
• Packaged Provider Modules
— Computer System
— Operating System
— Process
— Domain Name Service
— Network Time Protocol
— Network Information Service
— IP
For information on installing any A.02.09 version, see “Installation Information” (page 12).
Standards Conformance
This version of the HP WBEM Services product complies with the following standards:
• CIM Operations over HTTP, Version 1.1
• Representation of CIM in XML, Version 2.1
• CIM Infrastructure Specification, Version 2.3
• CIM Schema, Version 2.17.1
For more information about the DMTF WBEM and CIM standards, go to:
http://www.dmtf.org.
Standards Conformance 7