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Dell PowerVault ML6000 SMI-S Reference Guide 11
Service Discovery and CIM Indications
This chapter explains how to discover the CIM server embedded within your library, and how to use CIM
indications to help you monitor the status of the library.
Setting up Authentication and Privacy
To use the CIM server embedded within your library, the CIM server must be enabled and your CIM clients
must connect to it using the appropriate credentials.
Enabling the CIM Server
The CIM server uses port 5988 for HTTP and port 5989 for HTTPS. To enable the CIM server in your library,
HTTP and/or HTTPS must be enabled. By default, HTTP port 5988 is enabled on the ML6000 library, while
the HTTPS port 5989 can be selectively either enabled or disabled.
Enabling HTTP or HTTPS also enables the Service Location Protocol (SLP) service. The SLP service is
also enabled by default. SLP is disabled if both HTTP and HTTPS are disabled.
If you disable the CIM server and need to enable it again in the future, refer to the library’s Dell PowerVault
ML6000 Tape Library User’s Guide.
CIM Clients
CIM clients can connect to the library using the same identity and credential information as the remote web
client of the ML6000. The interop namespace is root/cimv2.
The ML6000 library supports Secure Socket Layer (SSL) 3.0 authentication. To use SSL, you must have
an SSL certificate. The SSL certificate is self generated. When you enable SSL from the library interface,
the certificate is presented the first time you attempt to connect to the library via SSL. For information about
enabling SSL on the library, see the Dell PowerVault ML6000 User’s Guide.
You can disable the CIM server by disabling HTTPS; HTTP is always enabled.