Resource classes defined by the CIM resource manager

The CIM resource manager does not provide a default set of resource classes. Instead, the CIM resource manager enables you to use RMC to query or monitor system configuration through Common Information Model (CIM) classes. CIM is a data model, similar to the RMC data model, for organizing computer hardware and software resources into a common object-oriented class hierarchy.

The CIM resource manager provides a command that enables you to register CIM properties with RMC. The CIM classes are mapped to new RMC resource classes. The RMC resource class name will be a concatenation of the namespace and the CIM class name — for example cimv2.Linux_ComputerSystem. All registered CIM classes are placed in the root/cimv2 namespace.

For more information on the CIM resource manager, see Querying and monitoring CIM properties and associations.