Purpose

The cimprovider command lets you disable, enable, remove, and list registered CIM providers or CIM provider modules and the according module status. In addition, it allows you to define groups of provider modules to be run in the same provider agent process.

disable

When a CIM provider is disabled, the CIM server rejects any requests to the provider. When a provider module is disabled, any new requests to the providers that are contained in the specified provider module are rejected.

enable

When a CIM provider is enabled, the CIM server forwards requests to the provider. When a provider module is enabled, the providers that are contained in the provider module are ready to accept a new request.

remove

When a CIM provider is removed (unregistered), the CIM server will no longer have any information about the provider. When a CIM provider module is removed (unregistered), the CIM server will no longer have any information about any provider contained in the module. If you want to address requests to a provider after removal, the provider or provider module must be registered again (typically by loading its registration schema using the cimmof command).

list

You can list all registered provider modules and the according module status or all providers in the specified provider module.

group

Allows grouping of provider modules in a single provider agent process when running the CIM server in out-of-process mode, that is, configuration property forceProviderProcesses is true.

For using the cimprovider command, the CIM server must be running, and the user needs to have CONTROL access to profile CIMSERV in class WBEM.