Configure the CIM Server

Configure the CIM Server

Your CIM Server requires limited configuration. After you install both fileset packages for the server and the providers, your Pegasus CIM Server is ready for use.

The AIX Pegasus CIM Server is SSL-ready. For more information about enabling the CIM Server to run with SSL, see Secure your CIM Server.

Start and stop the CIM Server

The AIX Pegasus is controlled by SRC, The subsystem name is cimsys and it has three subservers: cimsever, cimlistener and CIM_diagd. For more information about SRC commands, see .

startsrc -s cimsys
Start cimsys subsystem and its subservers

 stopsrc -s cimsys
Stop cimsys subsystem and its subservers

 lssrc -s cimsys
Query the status of cimsys subsystem\

 startsrc -t cimserver
Start CIM Server

 stopsrc -t cimserver
Stop CIM server

lssrc -t cimserver
Query the status of CIM Server

The CIM Server runs as a daemon in the background. By default, Basic Authentication is enabled. When Basic Authentication is enabled, the CIM Server authenticates the user ID and password of each request.

To disable Basic Authentication, set enableAuthentication=false in the configuration files before starting the CIM Server. If the CIM Server is already running, it must be restarted for the change to take effect. Client requests to the CIM Server must include a user ID and password if Basic Authentication is enabled.