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

Contents
1 Introduction to HP WBEM Services................................................................5
HP WBEM Services and common standards.................................................................................5
Common Information Model..................................................................................................5
CIM in Extensible Markup Language......................................................................................6
CIM operations over HTTP....................................................................................................6
HP WBEM Services architecture..................................................................................................6
How HP WBEM Services works?................................................................................................8
Client requests.....................................................................................................................8
Providers.............................................................................................................................8
Processing requests..............................................................................................................9
HP WBEM indications........................................................................................................12
HP WBEM Services executable scripts..................................................................................13
2 Installing and setting up HP WBEM Services................................................17
Compatibility information........................................................................................................17
HP WBEM Services compatibility tools.................................................................................17
Backing up repositories and files..............................................................................................18
Prerequisites...........................................................................................................................19
Installing HP WBEM Services...................................................................................................19
Upgrading HP WBEM Services................................................................................................21
Downgrading HP WBEM Services............................................................................................22
Re-installing HP WBEM Services...............................................................................................22
Providers and clients for HP WBEM Services..............................................................................22
Providers available with HP WBEM Services..........................................................................22
Clients available with HP WBEM Services.............................................................................25
Before starting HP WBEM Services...........................................................................................26
Starting and stopping the CIM Server........................................................................................27
Using the cimserver command.............................................................................................28
Using the cimserverd daemon..............................................................................................28
Using the cimconfig command.............................................................................................29
Using the cimtrust command................................................................................................29
CIM Server properties........................................................................................................30
Configuring Insight Remote Support (IRS) for WBEM Services..................................................31
Maintaining the repository.......................................................................................................31
Removing HP WBEM Services..................................................................................................32
3 Security considerations..............................................................................33
Guidelines for using SNMP, PRM, and WLM..............................................................................33
Configuring SSL......................................................................................................................33
HP WBEM Services configuration options security disclaimer........................................................34
Default security information.................................................................................................34
4 Authentication methods in HP WBEM Services.............................................35
User authentication.................................................................................................................35
Local user authentication.....................................................................................................35
Remote user authentication..................................................................................................36
HTTPS and HTTP.....................................................................................................................37
Managing certificates.............................................................................................................38
Importing server certificates to the Trust Store.........................................................................39
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