Following general aspects of developing a provider

Before you can start to develop a CMPI provider, you first need to have the CIM class model containing descriptions for the resource to be instrumented in the form of a CIM class. Follow the WBEM standards, and in particular be consistent with the CIM Schema supported by the CIM server when you develop the CIM class. Usually, a CIM class for which a provider is written, is derived from one of the classes in the CIM Schema provided by the DMTF, and named with a vendor-specific class name prefix. For example, the prefix "IBMzOS_" is used for all classes provided by IBM® for the z/OS operating system. This naming scheme also helps to prevent conflicts with the resources that have already been instrumented for CIM by IBM or other vendors.