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Standards, Environments, and Macros                       wbem(5)



NAME
     wbem - Web-Based Enterprise Management

DESCRIPTION
     Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) is a set  of  manage-
     ment and Internet-related technologies intended to unify the
     management of enterprise computing  environments.  Developed
     by  the  Distributed  Management  Task  Force  (DMTF),  WBEM
     enables  organizations  to  deliver  an  integrated  set  of
     standards-based  management  tools  that support and promote
     World Wide Web technology. The DMTF has developed a  set  of
     standards that make up WBEM. This set of standards includes:

  Common Information Model (CIM)
     CIM is an object-oriented  data  model  that  describes  the
     overall  management  of information in an enterprise network
     environment. CIM consists of a CIM specification and  a  CIM
     schema:

     CIM Specification    Consists of the language and  methodol-
                          ogy that describes management data.


     CIM Schema           Provides actual model  descriptions  of
                          systems,  applications, large area net-
                          works,  and  devices.  The  CIM  Schema
                          enables   applications  from  different
                          developers on  different  platforms  to
                          describe  management data in a standard
                          format.  As  a  result,  a  variety  of
                          management  applications can share this
                          information.



     CIM Operations Over HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP)  1.1
     is a transport mechanism that maps CIM operations to HTTP to
     allow implementations of CIM to  interoperate  in  an  open,
     standardized manner.


     CIM Operations Over HTTP 1.1 uses eXtensible Markup Language
     (XML), which is a markup language that represents management
     information in textual form.


     In addition to the XML representation,  CIM  information  is
     also  represented  textually  by  the  managed object format
     (MOF). These MOF representations  are  typically  stored  as
     text  files  that  developers  compile  into  a  CIM  Object
     Manager.




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  WBEM Tools and Services
     Tools and services that enable developers to create and Ser-
     vices   management  applications  and  instrumentation  that
     manage heterogeneous computer environments include:

         o    Solaris WBEM Services

         o    Solaris WBEM Software Development Kit (SDK)

  Solaris WBEM Services
     These services consist of a set of value-added Services com-
     ponents.  These  services  make  it easier for developers to
     create management  applications  that  run  in  the  Solaris
     operating  environment. They also make the Solaris operating
     environment easier to manage. Solaris WBEM Services consists
     of:

         o    CIM Object Manager, CIM Repository,  and  MOF  Com-
              piler

         o    CIM and  Solaris  Schema,  which  is  an  extension
              schema  of CIM. CIM and Solaris Schema is a collec-
              tion of CIM classes that describe managed  elements
              in the Solaris operating environment. These classes
              are available from the CIM Object Manager at  start
              up.

         o    Solaris Providers, which are programs that communi-
              cate  information  between  the  Solaris  operating
              environment and the CIM Object  Manager  (providers
              get  and set dynamic information about managed ele-
              ments, acting as an intermediary  between  the  CIM
              Object Manager and the managed elements).

              Solaris software providers have been developed  for
              a variety of areas: users, roles, file systems, and
              network configuration, for example. A  remote  pro-
              vider  is  also available to distribute agents away
              from the CIM Object Manager when required.  Because
              of  the incremental development capabilities of the
              WBEM instrumentation framework, developers can pro-
              gressively  and consistently add more providers for
              additional Solaris software services.

         o    SNMP Adapter for WBEM, which enables Simple Network
              Management  Protocol (SNMP) management applications
              to access system  management  information  that  is
              provided  by  Solaris  WBEM Services. Used with the
              Solstice  Enterprise  Agent  (SEA)   Master   Agent
              snmpdx(1M),  the  SNMP  Adapter  for WBEM maps SNMP
              requests into equivalent  WBEM  Common  Information
              Model (CIM) properties or instances.



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              The SNMP Adapter for WBEM also remaps the  response
              from  the CIM Object Manager into an SNMP response,
              which is returned to the management application.

              A mapping file contains  the  corresponding  Object
              Identifier  (OID),  class  name, property name, and
              Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) type for  each
              object.  Developers  can  create  their own mapping
              files.

         o    SNMP  Provider,  which  enables  WBEM  services  to
              deliver SNMP information.

  Solaris WBEM SDK
     The Solaris WBEM SDK is a  set  of  application  programming
     interfaces  (APIs)  that contain the components necessary to
     write management applications. These  applications  communi-
     cate  with  WBEM-enabled management devices by using XML and
     HTTP communication standards.


     Solaris WBEM applications request  information  or  services
     from  the  Common  Information  Model  (CIM)  Object Manager
     through the WBEM APIs. These APIs represent CIM  objects  as
     Java  classes. The APIs are used to describe managed objects
     and to retrieve information about managed objects in a  sys-
     tem environment. The advantage of modeling managed resources
     by using CIM is that those objects can be shared across  any
     system that is CIM-compliant.


     For more information  on  the  Solaris  WBEM  SDK,  see  the
     Solaris  WBEM  Developer's Guide. The Solaris WBEM API docu-
     mentation is available in Javadoc format with the Solaris OS
     installation at /usr/sadm/lib/wbem/doc/index.html.

  Compatibility of Solaris WBEM Services with Existing Protocols
     Adapters and converters  enable  Solaris  WBEM  Services  of
     Solaris  to  work compatibly with existing protocols by map-
     ping WBEM information to these protocols. One such  protocol
     is Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).


     Legacy management applications can  administer  WBEM-enabled
     software  in  the  Solaris operating environment. Developers
     can write agents or providers that convert information  from
     these  protocols  to  WBEM, and they can write adapters that
     convert WBEM information into these protocols.

ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:



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   |        ATTRIBUTE TYPE       |        ATTRIBUTE VALUE      |
   | ____________________________|_____________________________|_
   |  Availability               |  SPARC and x86              |
   | ____________________________|_____________________________|_
   |  Architecture               |  SUNWwbapi,        SUNWwbco,|
   |                             |  SUNWwbco,        SUNWwbdev,|
   |                             |  SUNWwbdoc, SUNWwbpro       |
   |_____________________________|_____________________________|
   | CSI                         | Enabled                     |
   |_____________________________|_____________________________|


SEE ALSO
     appletviewer(1),       cimworkshop(1M),       init.wbem(1M),
     mofcomp(1M),    mofreg(1M),    snmpdx(1M),    wbemadmin(1M),
     wbemconfig(1M), wbemlogviewer(1M), attributes(5)






































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