Using CIM Workshop to Develop WBEM Applications

You can develop WBEM applications that use CIM Workshop, a GUI-based development tool included with the Solaris WBEM SDK. You use CIM Workshop to do the following:

• View, add, delete, and search for classes

• View, add, and delete name spaces

• Add properties, qualifiers, and methods to new classes

• Create instances

• Modify instance values

• Traverse associations

• Subscribe to events

• Execute methods

CIM guidelines prevent you from modifying the properties, methods, and qualifiers of CIM schema and Solaris platform schema classes. You also cannot change the values of inherited properties, methods, and qualifiers.

CIM Workshop Documentation

CIM Workshop has context-sensitive online help for every dialog box except for the main window. When you click the interface components, the appropriate help text displays in the Information pane on the left side of the dialog box.

To close and reopen the Information pane, click the question mark button on the upper left corner of the dialog box.

Running CIM Workshop

The default behavior of CIM Workshop is to:

• Connect to a CIMOM running on the local host

• In the root\cimv2 default name space

• Using the Remote Method Invocation (RMI) protocol

You can also point to a remote host that is running the CIM Object Manager.

How to Start CIM Workshop

Steps

1. At the system prompt, type:

   % /usr/sadm/bin/cimworkshop

   The CIM Workshop Login dialog box displays.

2. Follow the instructions in the context-sensitive help to fill in the fields in the Login dialog box. Then click OK.

   The CIM Workshop main window displays.

How to Exit CIM Workshop

Step

From the CIM Workshop main window, choose Workshop->Exit.

CIM Workshop exits.

About the Main Window

The main window in CIM Workshop is divided into three panes:

• Left pane – Displays the class inheritance tree of the current name space.

• Right pane – Displays the Properties, Methods, and Events tabs. When you select a class in the left pane, click one of these tabs in the right pane to display more information on the properties, methods, or events of the selected class.

• Bottom pane – Displays notification when events occur to which you are subscribed.