Allied Telesis AT-2973T/4, AT-2973SX manual Installing CIM

Chapter 9: Installing CIM and SNMP for Manageability

Installing CIM

The Common Information Model (CIM) is an industry standard defined by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). Microsoft implements CIM on Windows platforms. Also, Broadcom supports CIM on the Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2 platforms.

Broadcom's implementation of CIM enables various classes to provide information through CIM client applications. The Broadcom CIM data provider provides data only. In addition, you can select your preferred CIM client software to browse the information exposed by the Broadcom CIM provider.

The Broadcom CIM provider provides information through the following classes:

BRCM_NetworkAdapter

BRCM_ExtraCapacityGroup

The BRCM_NetworkAdapter class provides network adapter information pertaining to a group of adapters including Broadcom and controllers from other vendors. The BRCM_ExtraCapacityGroup class provides team configuration for the Broadcom Advanced Server Program (BASP). Current implementation provides team information and information about physical network adapters in the team.

BASP provides information about events through event logs. You can use the either Event Viewer (provided by Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2) or CIM to inspect and monitor these events. The Broadcom CIM provider also provides event information through the CIM generic event model. The following events are defined by CIM:

__InstanceCreationEvent

__InstanceDeletionEvent

__InstanceModificationEvent

CIM requires the client application to register the events from the client application, using queries as examples to receive events properly. See the following examples:

SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent where TargetInstance ISA "BRCM_NetworkAdapter" SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent

where TargetInstance ISA "BRCM_ExtraCapacityGroup" SELECT * FROM __InstanceCreationEvent

where TargetInstance ISA "BRCM_NetworkAdapter"

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