Enabling manageable products for DMI
Follow these steps to enable a product for DMI.
To get started, you need:
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The DMI 2.0 Specification,
available electronically from the DMTF on the World Wide Web, at
http://www.dmtf.org.
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This documentation, and the manual pages in Section
3dmi.
See
Intro(3dmi)
for details.
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The DMI Service Provider for UnixWare 7.
To create a product that can be defined as a component and communicate
with the
Service Provider as defined by the DMI Specification:
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Read this documentation and the DMI Specification
to understand how a component interfaces with the
Service Provider and what functions must be supported.
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Define what is manageable about your product and what
specific features you want to showcase. Refer to existing
standards to find MIF groups that may apply
to your product. Sample MIFs are available
from the DMTF on the World Wide Web. For
more information about how to model the component and
make good design decisions when writing a MIF
file, see
``Modeling products with MIF files''.
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Write instrumentation code for your component.
For more information, see
``DMI 2.0 code samples''.
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Modify your component install and uninstall
programs so they properly install and uninstall your component's
MIF file into the existing MIF database. See
``Installing your component''
and
``Uninstalling your component''
for more information about these requirements. For more
details about the libraries that provide these installation
procedures, see
Intro(3dmi).
Examples of installing a component's MIF
file into the MIF database are included with
the package and described in
``DMI 2.0 code samples''.
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