Solaris Provider

Solaris WBEM Services includes the Solaris Provider, a program that enables the CIM Object Manager to communicate with the Solaris operating environment. The Solaris Provider is defined in a set of files created in Managed Object Format (MOF). Collectively, these files are referred to as the Solaris Schema. They extend CIM classes for the Solaris environment by providing definitions of the classes that the CIM Object Manager and the Solaris environment use to communicate.

The MOF files that make up the Solaris Schema are located in /opt/SUNWconn/wbem/schema. You can view these files in a text editor of your choice. Solaris_Schema1.0.mof is the principal schema file. It contains pointers to the other files that make up the Solaris Schema in the order in which the files are compiled at installation.

During the installation of Solaris WBEM Services, the MOF compiler compiles standard CIM 2.1 MOF files into the CIM Object Manager. After installation, these compiled classes represent the resources on your system, such as processes, application software, CPU resources, and memory. Applications can then use the API to get, set, and otherwise manipulate the managed resources on any WBEM-enabled system.

In addition, Solaris WBEM Services includes the Solaris Schema, MOF files that further describe Solaris-specific resources, such as Solaris patches and installed software packages. The Solaris Schema extends the standard CIM Schema classes.

Other vendors who extend the standard CIM Schema also build on the base classes. The benefit of using this information model to manage systems is that an application can get and set the properties for any system resource (for example, process) on any CIM system. You can use the same API to get and set properties about a process or device on a Microsoft Windows 32 system, a Solaris system, a UNIX platform, or any other CIM-compliant platform.