Setup verification

After performing the customization actions, you can start the CIM server as described in Step 4: Starting the CIM server and run the sample application CIMIVP delivered with the product as an installation verification program.

The client application CIMIVP is delivered as executable with the product in file /usr/lpp/wbem/bin/cimivp. It displays some of the information about the z/OS system which is available through CIM.

You invoke this program as job CFZIVP contained in SYS1.SAMPLIB or from the UNIX System Services command line as cimivp.

On successful completion, it generates an output similar to the one shown hereafter.

cimivp Main started ...
Connecting to local CIM Server ...
 ... success
> Found Computer System  : BOECFZ1.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (CPUID: 1A0B822097, 
  VMGuestID: CFZ1)
> Found Operating System : CFZ1 (Version: 02.01.00, Sysplex: CFZ1PLEX, 
  FreeMem: 2371188)
> Number of active UNIX System Services processes: 25
> Number of active address spaces: 98
> Number of FC ports: 25
> Number of online processors: CP(1) zAAP(0) zIIP(0)
> Number of configured disk volumes: 10984
cimivp - All tests completed successfully.

If the execution of cimivp times out, this may be caused by a slow IP hostname resolution or a large amount of managed resources, like for example disks. To override the default timeout, you can set the environment variable CIM_IVP_TIMEOUT to the amount of seconds that cimivp should wait for a response from the CIM server before it fails with a timeout. When you run cimivp by submitting the CIMIVP sample job, you can add the CIM_IVP_TIMEOUT variable to file /etc/wbem/cimserver.env like this:

CIM_IVP_TIMEOUT=300

This sets the timeout for cimivp to 5 minutes.