HP Storage Essentials V5.00.01 installation guide (T4283-96011, January 2006)

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9 Installing the CIM Extension for OpenVMS
This chapter describes the following:
• ”About the CIM Extension for OpenVMS” on page 147
• ”Prerequisites” on page 147
• ”Installing the CIM Extension for OpenVMS” on page 149
• ”Starting the CIM Extension Manually” on page 150
• ”Restricting the Users Who Can Discover the Host” on page 151
• ”Manually Starting the CIM Extension to Specify Multiple Users in a Colon-separated List” on
page 151
• ”Temporarily Changing the Port Number” on page 152
• ”Configuring the CIM Extension to Listen on a Specific Network Card” on page 153
• ”Finding the Version of a CIM Extension” on page 154
• ”Modifying the Boot Time Start Script (Optional)” on page 154
• ”Stopping the CIM Extension” on page 155
• ”Rolling Over the Log Files” on page 155
• ”Increasing the Native Logging Level” on page 156
• ”Removing the CIM Extension from OpenVMS” on page 156
About the CIM Extension for OpenVMS
The CIM Extension for OpenVMS is compatible with OpenVMS for Alpha. The CIM Extension for
OpenVMS gathers information from the operating system and host bus adapters (HBAs) and makes
the information available to the management server.
IMPORTANT: Install the CIM Extension on each host you want the management server to manage.
The CIM Extension communicates with an HBA by using the Host Bus Adapter Application
Programming Interface (HBAAPI) created by the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA). The
management server only supports communication with HBAs that are compliant with the HBAAPI.
For more information about the HBAAPI, see the following Web page on the SNIA Web site:
http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/hba_api/
Prerequisites
The required prerequisites are listed below:
• Supported OpenVMS (Alpha) versions and required ECOs
• To verify installed patches, enter the following at the command prompt: