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MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 6: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation | Installing and Configuring a CIM Provider
— RHEL
— SuSE Linux
6.6 Installing and
Configuring a CIM Provider
This section describes the installation and configuration of the LSI MegaRAID Common
Information Model (CIM) provider. The Common Information Model offers common
definitions of management information for networks, applications, and services, and
allows you to exchange management information across systems throughout a
network.
On a VMware ESXi system, management is possible only through a CIM provider, and it
is performed through the MegaRAID Storage Manager software installed on a remote
machine running a Linux or Windows operating system.
The VMware ESXi system comes with the Small Footprint CIM Broker (SFCB) CIM Object
Manager (or CIMOM). A CIMOM manages communication between providers, which
interact with the hardware, and a CIM client, where the administrator manages the
system.
SFCB supports Common Manageability Programming Interface (CMPI)-style providers.
CMPI defines a common standard used to interface manageability instrumentation
(providers, instrumentation) to management brokers (CIM Object Manager). CMPI
standardizes manageability instrumentation, which allows you to write and build
instrumentation once and run it in different CIM environments (on one platform).
6.6.1 Installing a CIM SAS Storage
Provider on the Linux Operating System
The following procedure documents how to install and uninstall the LSI CIM SAS
Storage Provider on a system running on the Linux operating system.
NOTE: Uninstall all the previous versions of LSISASProvider before you install this
version. You can check all of the installed versions of LSISASProvider by running the
rpm -qa | grep LsiSASProvider
command.
 To install a CIM SAS Storage Provider on a Linux system, install the SAS Provider
using the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) by entering the following command:
rpm -ivh
The RPM installs all of the necessary files and the Managed Object Format (MOF),
and it registers the libraries. The SAS Provider is now ready to use.
NOTE: After you install LSI CIM SAS Provider, the MOF file LSI_SASRaid.mof is
available under the /etc/lsi_cimprov/sas/pegasus/common directory.
 To uninstall a CIM SAS Storage Provider on a Linux system, remove LSI CIM SAS
Provider by entering the command:
rpm –ivh LsiSASProvider-<version>.<arch>.rpm
This removes all of the necessary files, uninstalls the MOF, and unregisters the
libraries. The SAS Provider is no longer on the system.