WBEM newbie question

[Donald W. Healey]

It appears that WBEM services are installed and running on one of our servers.

# swlist -l bundle | grep B8465BA
B8465BA A.01.05.08 HP WBEM Services for HP-UX
# ps -ef | grep cim
root 1722 1 0 02:16:06 ? 0:04 /opt/wbem/sbin/cimserver
root 2922 1 0 02:16:43 ? 0:00 /opt/wbem/sbin/cimserverd

Can someone please tell me in laymans terms what WBEM is and what might break if we remove it? Thanks

[RAC_1]

May be this link will help.

http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/9928-0-0-225-121.aspx#Product briefs and white papers

Anil

[Donald W. Healey]

Thanks RAC but the link leads to information overload. What I'm really trying to find out is why our system is running

root 1722 1 0 02:16:06 ? 0:04 /opt/wbem/sbin/cimserver
root 2922 1 0 02:16:43 ? 0:00 /opt/wbem/sbin/cimserverd

and whether or not these are services we actually need, i.e. are there stock HP processes that rely on these?

[RAC_1]

man cimserver

should give an idea about it.

[PeterWolfe]

>Can someone please tell me in laymans
>terms what WBEM is and what might break
>if we remove it?

In approximate terms, WBEM is
a next generation SNMP. The WBEM
related processes are used by system
management tools - both those local
to the system and remote management
tools like Systems Insight Manager (SIM).
Turning off wbem will break the system
management tools that depend on the wbem
data and infrastructure.

>man cimserver
>should give an idea about it.

Like all too many man pages,
this one really doesn't give you
any idea of the bigger picture. It
assumes you already know what it
is/why you'd use it...

[Donald W. Healey]

Thanks all, I believe that we now have enough information to be dangerous.