HP WBEM Services for HP-UX System Administrator Guide (5900-1624, April 2011)

</LOCALNAMESPACEPATH>

</IPARAMVALUE>

<VALUE>FALSEVALUE>FALSE>

</IPARAMVALUE>

</IMETHODCALL>

</SIMPLEREQ>

</MESSAGE>

</CIM>

If a configuration problem occurs with HP WBEM Services, then an error message is displayed.

For more information on wbemexec, see the wbemexec(1).

An error message from the wbemexec or the osinfo commands indicates a configuration problem

with either the HP WBEM Services installation or configuration. In such cases, you must troubleshoot

the problem and rectify it. For more information on troubleshooting such errors, see “Troubleshooting

HP WBEM Services” (page 42)

Before starting HP WBEM Services

Before starting HP WBEM Services, ensure that the following are present:

• Ports are configured

HP WBEM Services supports ports 5988 (wbem_http) and 5989 (wbem_https). These two

ports are specified by DMTF and are registered with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

(IANA) at http://www.iana.org.

IMPORTANT: Hewlett-Packard supports only these two port configurations: HTTP on port

5988, and HTTPS on port 5989.

By default, the HTTP server of HP WBEM Services listens for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

encrypted communications on the HTTPS (secure) port, 5989. If you are sure your environment

is secure, you can set the configuration such that the server listens at the HTTP (non-SSL) port,

5988. For more information on ports, see Chapter 3 (page 33).

When HP WBEM Services receives an HTTP request over the configured port, it checks user

authentication, parses the request, looks up the resource, and contacts the registered provider,

if applicable. The provider sends a response to HP WBEM Services, and HP WBEM Services

sends it back to the client through this port.

• HP WBEM Services infrastructure

For information about installing your version of HP WBEM Services, see the HP WBEM Services

Release Notes at www.hp.com/go/hpux-networking-docs and select HP-UX 11i WBEM

Software collection.

26 Installing and setting up HP WBEM Services