A Practical Approach to WBEM/CIM Management

by Chris Hobbs

Overview

System architects and engineers in fields such as storage networking, desktop computing, electrical power distribution, and telecommunications need a common and flexible way of managing heterogeneous devices and services. Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) and its Component Information Model (CIM) provide the architecture, language, interfaces,

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135488338
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	02/11/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	344
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Chris is a programmer at QNX Software Systems with some 40 years of software development experience. His specialty is Sufficiently Dependable Software, which is software that meets its dependability requirements with the minimum development effort and risk. In particular, he works with software for safety-critical systems that must meet the requirements of international safety standards such as IEC61508, ISO26262, EN50128 and IEC62304. Outside his professional work as a software developer, Chris is the author of several books including Flying Beyond: The Canadian Commercial Pilot Textbook and Embedded Software Development for Safety-Critical Systems.

Table of Contents

MANAGEMENT. Introduction. Device and Service Management. WBEM and other Management Systems. STRUCTURE. The WBEM Architecture. CIM and mof. Standard Models. INTERFACES. The Client/Server Interface. The Listener Interface. PRACTICE. Building Your Own Model. Modelling Tips. Writing Providers. Implementing Providers: Example. Writing Clients and Listeners. Transition to WBEM/CIM. Implementations and Tools. Choosing WBEM Software. APPENDICES. Industry Adoption of WBEM/CIM. Is-A and Has-A Relationships. FCAPS. Miscellaneous Datatypes. The MappingStrings Qualifier. Installing openPegasus. Glossary. Licensing.