cimworkshop(1M) System Administration Commands cimworkshop(1M)
NAME
cimworkshop - start the Sun WBEM CIM WorkShop application
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sadm/bin/cimworkshop
DESCRIPTION
The cimworkshop command starts Sun WBEM CIM WorkShop, a graphical user interface that enables you to create, modify, and view the classes
and instances that describe the managed resources on your system.
Managed resources are described using a standard information model called Common Information Model (CIM). A CIM class is a computer repre-
sentation, or model, of a type of managed resource, such as a printer, disk drive, or CPU. A CIM instance is a particular managed resource
that belongs to a particular class. Instances contain actual data. Objects can be shared by any WBEM-enabled system, device, or applica-
tion. CIM objects are grouped into meaningful collections called schema. One or more schemas can be stored in directory-like structures
called namespaces.
The CIM WorkShop application displays a Login dialog box. Context help is displayed on the left side of the CIM WorkShop dialog boxes. When
you click on a field, the help content changes to describe the selected field.
By default, CIM WorkShop uses the RMI protocol to connect to the CIM Object Manager on the local host, in the default namespace, rootMan-
ager using the standard XML/HTTP protocol from the Desktop Management Task Force. When a connection is established, all classes contained
in the default namespace are displayed in the left side of the CIM WorkShop window.
The name of the current namespace is listed in the tool bar. All programming operations are performed within a namespace. Four namespaces
are created in a root namespace during installation:
cimv2 Contains the default CIM classes that represent managed resources on your system.
security Contains the security classes used by the CIM Object Manager to represent access rights for users and namespaces.
system Contains properties for configuring the CIM Object Manager.
snmp Contains pre-defined SNMP-related classes and all SNMP MOF files that are compiled.
The cimworkshop application allows you to perform the following tasks:
Create, view, and change namespaces.
Use the CIM WorkShop application to view all namespaces. A namespace is a directory-like structure that can store CIM classes and
instances.
Create, delete, and view CIM classes.
You cannot modify the unique attributes of the classes that make up the CIM and Solaris Schema. You can create a new instance or sub-
class of the class and modify the desired attributes in that instance or subclass.
Create, modify, delete, and view CIM instances.
You can add instances to a class and modify its inherited properties or create new properties. You can also change the property values
of a CIM instance.
Invoke methods.
You can set input values for a parameter of a method and invoke the method.
When CIM WorkShop connects to the CIM Object Manager in a particular namespace, all subsequent operations occur within that namespace. When
you connect to a namespace, you can access the classes and instances in that namespace (if they exist) and in any namespaces contained in
that namespace.
When you use CIM WorkShop to view CIM data, the WBEM system validates your login information on the current host. By default, a validated
WBEM user is granted read access to the CIM Schema. The CIM Schema describes managed objects on your system in a standard format that all
WBEM-enabled systems and applications can interpret.
Read Only Allows read-only access to CIM Schema objects. Users with this privilege can retrieve instances and classes, but cannot
create, delete, or modify CIM objects.
Read/Write Allows full read, write, and delete access to all CIM classes and instances.
Write Allows write and delete, but not read access to all CIM classes and instances.
None Allows no access to CIM classes and instances.
USAGE
The cimworkshop command is not a tool for a distributed environment. Rather, this command is used for local administration on the machine
on which the CIM Object Manager is running.
EXIT STATUS
The cimworkshop utility terminates with exit status 0.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWwbdev |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
mofcomp(1M), wbemlogviewer(1M), init.wbem(1M), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 6 Nov 2000 cimworkshop(1M)