Installing and Configuring a CIM Provider This section describes the installation and configuration of the 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 ESXi system, management is possible only through a CIM provider, and it is performed through the MegaRAID Storage Manager software installed on a remote machine running a Linux or Windows operating system. The VMware ESXi system 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 Manageability 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 lets you write and build instrumentation once and run it in different CIM environments (on one platform).
Installing and Configuring a CIM Provider
This section describes the installation and configuration of the 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 ESXi system, management is possible only through a CIM provider, and it is performed through the MegaRAID Storage Manager software installed on a remote machine running a Linux or Windows operating system.
The VMware ESXi system 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 Manageability 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 lets you write and build instrumentation once and run it in different CIM environments (on one platform).