WBEMfor Solaris on Sun Developer's Guide

Syntax of the cimom Command

The cimom command uses the following three parameters.

Parameter 

Description 

-help

Causes a man page to display with information about the cimom command and parameters.

-sdatabase_server

Enables you to specify a server installed with a CIM Repository. This parameter provides control over where your CIM objects are stored. 

-version

Causes the build version of the CIM Object Manager to be displayed.  

The syntax of the cimom command is: cimom [parameter] [modifier]

where [parameter] is any of the parameters shown in the preceding table, and [modifier] is the additional information that is required by a parameter. For example in the command cimom -s hopskotch, -s is the [parameter] and hopskotch is the [modifier] that indicates the name of the server on which the CIM Repository is located.