Chapter 7: Manageability Features
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CIM
The Common Information Model (CIM) is an industry standard defined by
the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). Microsoft implements
CIM on Windows platforms such as Windows 2000 and Windows Server
2003 systems. Allied Telesyn supports CIM on the Windows 2000 and the
Windows Server 2003 platforms.
Allied Telesyn's implementation of CIM provides various classes that
provide information to users through CIM client applications. (Please note
that the AT-2931SX Broadcom CIM data provider provides data only.) You
can choose your preferred CIM client software to browse the information
provided by the AT-2931SX Broadcom CIM provider.
The AT-2931SX Broadcom CIM provider provides information through the
BRCM_NetworkAdapter and BRCM_ExtraCapacityGroup classes.
The BRCM_NetworkAdapter class provides network adapter information
pertaining to a group of adapters including the AT-2931SX adapter and
other vendors' controllers. The BRCM_ExtraCapacityGroup class
provides team configuration for the AT-2931SX BASP feature. Current
implementation provides team information as well as information about
physical network adapters in the team.
AT-2931SX BASP provides events through event logs. You can use the
"Event Viewer" provided by Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. Or,
you can use CIM to inspect or monitor these events. AT-2931SX BASP
provider also provides event information through the CIM's generic event
model. These events are __InstanceCreationEvent,
__InstanceDeletionEvent and __InstanceModificationEvent. These events
are defined by CIM. In addition, CIM requires the client application to
register the events from the client application, using queries as examples
(shown below) in order to receive events properly.
SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent where
TargetInstance ISA "BRCM_NetworkAdapter"
SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent where
TargetInstance ISA "BRCM_ExtraCapacityGroup"
SELECT * FROM __InstanceCreationEvent where
TargetInstance ISA "BRCM_NetworkAdapter"
SELECT * FROM __InstanceDeletionEvent where
TargetInstance ISA "BRCM_NetworkAdapter"
SELECT * FROM __InstanceCreationEvent where
TargetInstance ISA "BRCM_ActsAsSpare"
SELECT * FROM __InstanceDeletionEvent where
TargetInstance ISA "BRCM_ActsAsSpare"
For detailed information about these events, please refer to the CIM
documentation.