How Indications of Events are Generated

By default, the CIM Object Manager polls for indications of intrinsic events at regular intervals. Administrators can change the event polling interval and the default polling behavior of the CIM Object Manager by editing the properties in the cimom.properties file. For instructions on editing the cimom.properties file, see the Solaris WBEM Services Administrator's Guide.

The CIM Object Manager polls by enumerating instances, repeating the enumeration at the specified polling interval, and then finding any new, changed, or deleted instances between the two sets of enumerated instances. If a provider generates indications for events, the CIM Object Manager will not poll the provider. If possible, providers should generate indications for the intrinsic events that occur in the dynamic instances of the classes they support. This prevents the performance cost that results from the CIM Object Manager polling for the event.

The CIM Object Manager Repository generates an indication when a static instance is created, modified, or deleted.