HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for HP integrated VMware ESXi 5.0 U1 June 2012 Profiles

12 HP Software Inventory and Update Profile Version 2.0.0
Figure 4 – Available, Installed and Not Installed SoftwareIdentities
A given 1023 provider can determine and report not only what is installed on a system, but what is
available to install.
Example: A provider running on a managed system can be configured (this configuration is provider-
specific) to point to a file share of all possible installable components. Using internal logic, it would
determine what was installed on the system it’s running on, and what from the repository was
applicable to install to its system. Both Installed and Available Software are returned via a 1023
provider to the client application.
The client application can display the list of Available Software to the user, who can select what to
install. The client application sends the selected items down to a 1025 provider
(InstallFromSoftwareIdentity()) on the managed system.