Enabling and disabling the SMI-S agent

This page allows users to view and change the status of the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) Agent on the TS3500 tape library. The SMI-S Agent is IBM's implementation of the Common Information Model (CIM). The CIM is an interface standard that enables interoperability for hardware and software products, in your enterprise's storage network environment, that might come from different manufacturers. The CIM provides common protocols and data models that storage product manufacturers can use to ensure ease of both use and manageability of the storage network environment.

The SMI-S Agent follows the security settings of the Web server. When Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is disabled, it listens on the standard CIM HTTP port 5988. When SSL is enabled, it uses the CIM HTTPS port 5989. Note that SSL slows down the performance of the CIM interface. When user security is enabled, the CIMOM requires a Web User ID and password that are part of the Administrator or Monitor roles. When the Storage Authentication Service (SAS) is enabled, the CIMOM requires the LDAP User ID and password. The SMI-S agent uses the namespace root/ibm.