Using CIM Workshop to Develop WBEM Applications

You can develop WBEM applications using 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 namespaces

• 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 Schema classes, and from changing 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 various interface components such as text entry fields, tabs, and radio buttons within a dialog box, the appropriate help 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

By default, CIM Workshop connects to a CIM Object Manager running on the local host in the root/cimv2 default namespace using the Remote Method Invocation (RMI) protocol. You can also point to a remote host that is running the CIM Object Manager.

To Start CIM WorkShop

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.

To Exit CIM WorkShop

1. From the CIM Workshop main window, select Workshop->Exit.

   CIM Workshop exits.

About the Main Window

The CIM Workshop main window is divided into three panes:

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

• 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 get more information on the properties, methods, or events of the selected class.

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