Getting Started
The CIM Browser allows a user
to browse a CIM-based schema to retrieve class definitions and its
instances. The tool retrieves class only definitions on a local
repository while it can retrieve both classes and instances from the
target running J WBEM Server.
I. To Open the CIM Browser tools
- Select Window -> Other from the top-level menu bar to show
the Show View window
- Select WBEM Workshop -> CIM Browser and click OK to open the
CIM Browser tool window
II. Connection
- Select the type of connection to use from the protocol
dropdown list
- repository- connecting to a local repository on you
hard drive
- CIM-XML / WS-Managedment- connecting to a running
J WBEM Server within your network, for more info of these two protocols
see J WBEM Server user guide
- Type in the complete uri path of either from the repository
or the running J WBEM Server, namespace MUST also be included in the path.
see examples below:
-respository: file://.\cim_2_29_0/final
-CIM-XML / WS-Management: https://localhost/interop
Or you can just use the search button for
searching for available repository or running J WBEM Server on your network
- Provide a username and password when connecting to a running
J WBEM Server by default both are set to "guess", on the otherhand when
connecting to a repository no authentication is needed
- Lastly, press the connect button.
Note: You can use the Recent URI Connections button to see the recent list of URI used.
III. Start browsing
After the correct connection info is provided, right after editing the
uri field just click the lower left tree panel to generate the cim
classes. the root of the tree is the namespace name, click the + button
to collapse and view the cimclasses under that namespace. as shown
below
From the generated cimclasses tree you can also search for a
specific class
- Click on the Find icon
on the upper right corner of CIMBrowser tool window
- The following window appears. Enter the classname and hit OK
You can view the cimclass definitions by either selecting a
particular class from the tree or searching that class following the
previous find class instruction.
The following are the CIMClass definition tabs:
- Properties tab: Displays the inherited and local properties
and its property qualifiers of the selected cimclass
- Methods tab: To view the inherited and local extrinsic
methods defined for the selected cimclass
- Class Qualifiers tab: To view the class qualifiers defined
for the selected cimclass
- Association: Displays the selected cimclass associated
classes
- References: Displays the classes referencing the selected
CIMClass
- Instances: Displays the instances of the selected CIMClass
III.a CIMClass definition tabs
- Properties Tab
- key
icon:
represents that it is a key properity
- Inherited
icon: represents that it is an inherited property
- Name of the property
- The default value of the property
- Click on each property to display the defined property
qualifier
- Association and References tab
- List of associated or referencing CIM Classes
- Properties of the selected cimclass from A
- Qualifier defination of the selected property from B
- Click the edit filters button to edit the either
association or references operation filters
- Instances Tab
- These are the list of instances from the selected Class from
the tree
- Properties of the selected instance from A
- From the selected instance from A get its associated
or referencing instances
- Modification and Deletion of the selected instance from A
as well as creating an instance from the selected class
- Deleting Instance - To delete an instance select an
instance from the list and press delete
- Modifying Instance - Select an instance to modify and
press modify and a new window will pop-up as shown below.
Figure
D.1
Just select any property from the table to
edit its value, remember you can only edit a non-key property
- Creating Instance - To Create an instance select a
CIMClass from the tree and press Create this will lunch the same
window as Figure D.1, just select a property from the table to add
a value, when done press ok