Installing And Configuring A Cim Provider; Installing A Cim Sas Storage Provider On Linux - Lenovo ThinkServer RD240 Software User's Manual

6.5

Installing and Configuring a CIM Provider

6.5.1

Installing a CIM SAS Storage Provider on Linux

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This section describes the installation and configuration of the ThinkServer
MegaRAID Common Information Model (CIM) provider. The Common
Information Model offers common definitions of management information
for networks, applications, and services, and allows you to exchange
management information across systems throughout a network.
On a VMWare ESX3i system, management is possible only through a
CIM provider and it is performed through MSM installed on a remote
machine running a Linux or Windows operating system.
VMWare ESX3i comes with the Small Footprint CIM Broker (SFCB) CIM
Object Manager (or CIMOM). A CIMOM manages communication
between providers, which interact with the hardware, and a CIM client,
where the administrator manages the system.
SFCB supports Common Manageablity Programming Interface (CMPI)-
style providers. CMPI defines a common standard used to interface
Manageability Instrumentation (providers, instrumentation) to
Management Brokers (CIM Object Manager). CMPI standardizes
Manageability Instrumentation, which allows you to write and build
instrumentation once and run it in different CIM environments (on one
platform).
The following procedure documents how to install and un-install the
ThinkServer CIM SAS Storage Provider on a system running on the
Linux operating system.
Note:
Uninstall all the previous versions of ThinkServerSASProvider
before you install this version. You can check all of the installed
versions of ThinkServerSASProvider by using the command
rpm -qa | grep ThinkServerSASProvider
Perform the following step to install a CIM SAS Storage Provider on a
Linux system.
Installing and Configuring a CIM Provider
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