Installation guide

B – Command Line Interface
CIMSubscription Command
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CIMSubscription Command
Creates, edits, or removes CIM subscriptions.
Authority Admin session and a CIM Edit session. Refer to the “CIM Command” on
page B-11 for information about opening a CIM edit session.
Syntax cimsubscription
create [subscription_name]
delete [subscription_name]
edit [subscription_name]
Keywords create [subscription_name]
Prompts you in a line-by-line fashion to create a CIM subscription with the name
given by [subscription_name]. [subscription_name] can have up to 32 characters:
0-9, A-Z, a-z, _, $, ^, and -. Table B-4 describes the CIM subscription configuration
parameters.
delete [subscription_name]
Deletes the subscription given by [subscription_name] from the CIM database.
edit [subscription_name]
Opens an editing session in which you can modify the CIM subscription given by
[subscription_name]. Refer to Table B-4 for a description of the CIM subscription
configuration parameters.
Table B-4. CIM Subscription Configuration Parameters
Parameter Description
Name Subscription name.
FilterID Event type for which the switch monitors and sends an indication
to the CIM client. The event types are as follows:
 CreateComputerSystem – A switch is added to the fabric.
This is the default.
 ModifyComputerSystem – A switch state change.
 DeleteComputerSystem – A switch is removed from the
fabric.
 CreateFCPort – Not supported.
 ModifyFCPort – A Fibre Channel port state change.
 DeleteFCPort – Not supported.
EnabledState Enable (True) or disable (False) the subscription. The default is
True.
Duration Subscription life span in seconds. The subscription life span
begins when the subscription is created. Expired subscriptions
do not send indications to the CIM client though they remain in
the CIM database. Values can be 1–720000. 0 indicates
indefinite, which is the default.