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Solaris WBEM Services
General FAQ
General QuestionsQ: Where can I get support for Sun WBEM SDK and Solaris WBEM Services?
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Support questions can be submitted to wbem-interest-EXT@sun.com.
Q: What did Sun announce with the Solaris WBEM Services software release?
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Sun announced adoption of the WBEM initiative and its accompanying standards (CIM, XML etc.) for Solaris indicating that WBEM is part of Sun's long-term strategy for system management. Sun's initial product offerings in support for WBEM include Solaris WBEM Services software and the Sun WBEM Software Development Kit (SDK). Solaris becomes the first enterprise operating system to adopt WBEM.
Q: What is WBEM and how does it tie into CIM and HTTP/XML?
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WBEM is the Web-Based Enterprise Management initative to standardize management information across platforms. To achieve this, the Common Information Model (CIM) defines a consistent schema for information about objects (e.g. disk drives, printers, applications, operating systems) in the system. This information would be made available to management applications via an open communication standard like eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP).
Q: What is WBEM's main benefit?
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WBEM simplifys the complexity and reduces the cost of managing a heterogeneous network that includes systems from a variety of vendors by ensuring interoperability via standardized and consistent management information.
Q: How are DMTF and WBEM related?
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The Distributed Managment Task Force (DMTF) is responsible for setting system managment standards. WBEM is a DMTF initative that produced the CIM standard.
See http://dmtf.org/ for more information.
Q: What are the main benefits resulting from Sun's adoption of the WBEM initiative?
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Sun customers get easier Solaris management and reduced cost of ownership of Solaris systems. Solaris System Partners can deliver easy platform management to their customers via Solaris instrumentation through CIM. Sun ISVs and IHVs
can develop Solaris management applications faster and easier and those applications can run on mulitple platforms. Solaris WBEM Services makes Solaris as easy to manage as any other platform.
Q: How does WBEM make Solaris easy to manage?
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By adopting the WBEM standard, Sun gives access to Solaris management
information which can be used by management tools from other vendors. It does
this by having information - standard and consistent- in the Common Information
Model Object Manager and providing access to the CIM Object Manager.
Q: What is Sun providing with the Solaris WBEM Services software release?
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There are two distinct products being released: Solaris WBEM Services (SPARC and Intel versions) and Sun WBEM Software Development Kit (Solaris-SPARC, Solaris-Intel and any other platform that supports Java technology).
Q: How are Solaris WBEM Services and Sun WBEM SDK related?
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Solaris WBEM Services is software that provides for creating and modifying system information stored in a standard format. The Sun WBEM SDK are tools that help Sun partners - ISVs, IHVs, System Management Vendors, Solaris System
partners etc. - develop applications leveraging the WBEM initiative and its accompanying standards (CIM, XML, MOF etc.).
Q: How do I obtain a copy of the Sun WBEM SDK and Solaris WBEM Services?
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Both Solaris WBEM Services and Sun WBEM SDK are included in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment. In addition, an Early Access version can also be downloaded from http://www.sun.com/solaris/wbem/get.html.
Q: What are the contents of the Solaris WBEM Services software release?
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Solaris WBEM Services contains: CIM Object Manager, Managed Object Format
(MOF) Compiler, Solaris Schema and Solaris Providers. Sun WBEM SDK contains:
Client APIs, Provider APIs, CIM WorkShop, sample programs and documentation.
See http://www.sun.com/solaris/wbem for more details.
Q: What is the cost of the WBEM SDK and Solaris WBEM Services software?
A:
There is no charge for the Solaris WBEM Services software.
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