1 Openwbem - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION Installation Manual

OpenWBEM
Novell® has embraced the open standard strategies of Web-Based Enterprise Manage-
ment (WBEM) proposed by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)
[http://www.dmtf.org/home]. Implementing these strategies can substantially
reduce the level of complexity associated with managing disparate systems in your
network.
The following information describes a few of the components proposed by the DMTF
standards. Understanding what these are and how they relate to each other can help you
understand what OpenWBEM is and how you most effectively use it in your network.
• Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) is a set of management and Internet
standard technologies developed to unify the management of enterprise computing
environments. WBEM provides the ability for the industry to deliver a well-inte-
grated set of standards-based management tools leveraging the emerging Web
technologies. The DMTF has developed a core set of standards that make up WBEM:
• A data model: the Common Information Model (CIM) standard
• An encoding specification: CIM-XML Encoding Specification
• A transport mechanism: CIM operations over HTTP
• The Common Information Model (CIM) is a conceptual information model that
describes management and is not bound to a particular implementation. This allows
for the interchange of management information between management systems and
applications. This can be either agent-to-manager or manager-to-manager commu-
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