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

NOTE: If you already have HP WBEM Services installed, check your release notes before
removing or re-installing it. You can remove all the files associated with HP WBEM Services
and make all your providers unavailable.
IMPORTANT: Do not move or change HP WBEM Services files. Their locations are
predetermined.
Starting and stopping the CIM Server
The CIM Server receives requests from management clients, and interacts with the respective
providers to gather information that is requested by the management clients. The CIM Server
receives information from the providers and sends it back to the management clients.
The CIM Server is designed to be constantly running, unless you manually stop it. In addition, it is
designed to automatically restart when the operating environment is restarted, and continues to
run as long as the OE is running.
IMPORTANT: HP recommends that you do not disable the CIM Server from running when the
OE is restarted. If you disable the automatic restart of the CIM Server, it will impact other HP
products such as HP Instant Capacity, HP Instant Capacity on Demand, HP SIM, VSE, and System
Fault Management. These products on HP WBEM Services (cimserver) must be running.
If the CIM Server fails on an HP-UX system, the cimserverd daemon restarts it. For more
information on the cimserverd daemon, see the section, “Using the cimserverd daemon”
(page 28).
To determine if the CIM Server is running, enter the ps -ef|grep cimserver command.
Although it is designed to automatically restart with the OE, the CIM Server does not restart
automatically in the following cases:
• If you have installed HP WBEM Services for the first time in your environment.
• If you have intentionally stopped the CIM Server with the cimserver -s command.
• If you have disabled HTTP and HTTPS connections using the cimconfig command, by setting
the enableHTTPconnection and enableHTTPSconnections properties to false.
NOTE: CIM Server starts automatically if HP WBEM Services has stopped abruptly. HP
recommends not to directly modify the files /var/opt/wbem/cimserver_current.conf
and /var/opt/wbem/cimserver_planned.conf .
If the CIM Server is not running, restart the CIM Server with the cimserver command for HP-UX
systems.
IMPORTANT: You must have root permissions to use the cimserver command to stop or start
the CIM Server.
While shutting down the CIM Server with the cimserver -s command, you can also specify a
value for the shutdown property on the command line interface (shutdownTimeout=value).
For example, if the CPU utilization of the system is very high, you might want to let the shut down
process to take a longer time. The value that you specify is applicable only for the current shutdown
instance.
While starting the CIM Server with the cimserver command, you can specify several properties
and value pairs on the command line interface. The values that you specify are applicable only
for the current instance. After the CIM Server is restarted, the values of the properties revert to those
specified in the current and planned configuration files.
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