CIMSubscription command

Description Creates, edits, or removes CIM subscriptions.

Authority Admin session and a CIM Edit session.

Syntax cimsubscription

create [subscription_name] delete [subscription_name] edit [subscription_name]

Operands create [subscription_name]

Prompts you in a line-by-line fashion to create a CIM subscription with the name given by [subscription_name]. [subscription_name] can have up to 32 characters: 0—9, A—Z, a—z, _, $, ^, and -. Table 30 describes the CIM subscription configuration parameters.

Table 30 CIM Subscription configuration parameters

Parameter

Description

 

 

Name

Subscription name

 

 

FilterID

Event type for which the switch monitors and sends an indication to the CIM

 

client. The event types are as follows:

 

CreateComputerSystem — a switch is added to the fabric. This is the

 

default.

 

ModifyComputerSystem — a switch state change

 

DeleteComputerSystem — a switch is removed from the fabric

 

CreateFCPort — not supported

 

ModifyFCPort — an FC port state change

 

DeleteFCPort — not supported

 

 

EnabledState

Enable (True) or disable (False) the subscription. The default is True.

 

 

Duration

Subscription life span in seconds. The subscription life span begins when

 

the subscription is created. Expired subscriptions do not send indications to

 

the CIM client though they remain in the CIM database. Values can be

 

1–720000. 0 indicates indefinite, which is the default.

 

 

delete [subscription_name]

Deletes the subscription given by [subscription_name] from the CIM database.

edit [subscription_name]

Opens an editing session in which you can modify the CIM subscription given by [subscription_name]. Refer to Table 30 for a description of the CIM subscription configuration parameters.

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