Lenovo ThinkServer RD240 MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide - Page 231

host, you have to follow this procedure to replace the Storelib library. 6.5 Installing and Configuring a CIM Provider This section describes the installation and configuration of the ThinkServer MegaRAID Common Information Model (CIM) provider. The Common Information Model offers common definitions of management information for networks, applications, and services, and allows you to exchange management information across systems throughout a network. On a VMWare ESX3i system, management is possible only through a CIM provider and it is performed through MSM installed on a remote machine running a Linux or Windows operating system. VMWare ESX3i comes with the Small Footprint CIM Broker (SFCB) CIM Object Manager (or CIMOM). A CIMOM manages communication between providers, which interact with the hardware, and a CIM client, where the administrator manages the system. SFCB supports Common Manageablity Programming Interface (CMPI)style providers. CMPI defines a common standard used to interface Manageability Instrumentation (providers, instrumentation) to Management Brokers (CIM Object Manager). CMPI standardizes Manageability Instrumentation, which allows you to write and build instrumentation once and run it in different CIM environments (on one platform). 6.5.1 Installing a CIM SAS Storage Provider on Linux The following procedure documents how to install and un-install the ThinkServer CIM SAS Storage Provider on a system running on the Linux operating system. Note: Uninstall all the previous versions of ThinkServerSASProvider before you install this version. You can check all of the installed versions of ThinkServerSASProvider by using the command rpm -qa | grep ThinkServerSAS.Provider Perform the following step to install a CIM SAS Storage Provider on a Linux system. Installing and Configuring a CIM Provider 6-23