HP WBEM Services for HP-UX

HP WBEM Services for HP-UX (http://www.dmtf.org/) is a platform- and resource-independent Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) standard that defines both a common model (i.e., description) and protocol (i.e., interface) for monitoring and controlling a diverse set of resources. The HP WBEM Services for HP-UX product is the HP-UX implementation of the DMTF WBEM standard.

HP WBEM Services for HP-UX, version A.01.05.01, supports HP-UX 11i v2 and is included as a component in the HP-UX 11i v2 OE.

This product is based on The Open Group (TOG) Pegasus Open Source Software (OSS) project (http://www.opengroup.org/pegasus/).

Summary of Change

This release of HP WBEM Services for HP-UX supports the HP-UX 11i v2 Intel®Itanium® processor family. Major features in this release include:

This version of the product supports strong SSL encryption.
The CIM Server can now be configured to simultaneously support both SSL and non-SSL connections.
Local connections have been enhanced to use UNIX Domain Sockets, offering increased security and improved performance.
Four additional providers have been added to the HP-UX WBEM Services product: HP-UX Network Time Protocol (NTP) CIM Provider, HP-UX Domain Name System (DNS) CIM Provider, HP-UX Network Information Service (NIS) CIM Provider and HP-UX Internet Protocol (IP) CIM Provider.

Impact

No significant change with the exception of access to the new features listed above.

Compatibility

With the HP-UX 11i v2 release of HP WBEM Services, the default value for the configuration parameter, enableRemotePrivilegedUserAccess, has been changed to true. This means that, by default, an authenticated user, with privileged access to the system running WBEM Services, will be allowed to issue requests to WBEM Services from a remote system. For more information about this parameter, refer to the WBEM documentation available at http://www.docs.hp.com.

Performance

There are no performance issues.

Documentation

The manpage for cimconfig has been updated. Manpages are packaged with the product and are placed in the directory /opt/wbem/share/man.

For further information, see the HP WBEM Web site at http://www.hp.com/large/infrastructure/management/wbem/hpux/index.html.

Additional information may be found in HP WBEM Services for HP-UX System Administrator's Guide and HP WBEM Services for HP-UX Version A.01.05 Release Notes. Both can be found at http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/netsys/index.html.

Obsolescence

Not applicable.