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Pegasus webadmin interface provides a limited edition of administering the

cimserver through web. Currently, modification of cimserver config options

viewing the Providers registered and subscriptions view are supported. In

future management of subscriptions and provider management will be added.

future, management of subscriptions and provider management will be added.

In OpenPegasus 2.14, Webadmin is still in a experimental vesrion and will

be improved in the future.

How to build pegasus for using webadmin?

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If you are building from sources, No need to set any build environ variable. It

Building source files for webadmin will need to build for both CIM-RS and

is enabled by default.

webadmin. CIM-RS is built as an integral part of server(not controlled by

by build macros) and webadmin i controlled by PEGASUS_ENABLE_PROTOCOL_WEB,

which is 'true by default'.

To disable it set PEGASUS_ENABLE_PROTOCOL_WEB=false.

What is relation between Webadmin and CIM-RS?

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webadmin interface's backbone is CIM-RS details at [1] and webserver facility

built on pegasus. CIM-RS accepts payload represented as JSON[2]. The response

built on pegasus. CIM-RS accepts/yields payloads represented as JSON[2]. The

in JSON can be consumed webserver and can be shown as a webpage.

response in JSON can be consumed by webserver easily, for example through

CIM-RS is built as a integral part of cimserver, not controlled by any env and

javascripti, for displaying as a webpage.

webserver facility is controlled by PEGASUS_ENABLE_PROTOCOL_WEB, which is

enabled by default. To disable it set PEGASUS_ENABLE_PROTOCOL_WEB=false.

How do I bring up the webadmin?

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browser. For example, if your hostname is localhost.localdomain. Just type in

localhost.localdomain:5988.

where does my webRoot points to?

Which ports do CIM-RS aand webadmin use?

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webRoot is the path that webadmin pages locate. Following are the value of

Webadmin and CIM-RS currently uses the DMTF's CIMOM ports i.e 5988(http) and

webRoot for part of the platforms.

5989(https). This port will be updated with dedicated port for CIM-RS when

available.

Linux /opt/tog-pegasus/www

i5/PASE /QOpenSys/QIBM/UserData/UME/Pegasus/www

Is there any security concerns for webadmin?

Windows <PEGASUS_HOME>/www

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zOS /var/wbem/www

In order to avoid modifying the server config options by any users, pegasus

should be started with 'enableAuthentication=true' which forces users to login

Where do I put my custom webpages?

for the webadmin.

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and in order to restrict to particular groups, 'authorizedUserGroups' should be

The custom webpages can be put in to webRoot and the types are limited to the

set to the groups, whose members should be allowed to modify the config

ones in mimeTypes.txt.

options.

EnableAuthentication and authorizedUserGroups details can be found in manpage

What are the security concern for using webadmin?

of cimconfig(8)

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The security is enabled by default in the release version.To disable it,set

enableAuthentication=true when start cimserver. When PAM is enabled, webadmin is

able to access by the system users, otherwise the cim users needs to be added by

the tool cimuser.

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