Determining the Namespaces
in Your Installation
You can hard-code namespaces in the client,
or specify them at run time, or you can obtain the namespaces from a Service
Location Protocol (SLP) Service Agent. Table 2-2 lists the namespaces used by
ESXi.
Interop Namespace
| Implementation Namespace
| |
|---|---|---|
ESXi
| root/interop
| root/cimv2
|
You can obtain both the Interop namespace and the
Implementation namespace for your managed server from SLP. You can identify the
Interop namespace more conveniently than the Implementation namespace in the
SLP output.
The approach preferred in this document is to use
SLP to obtain the Interop namespace and the URL to enumerate
CIM_RegisteredProfile
, and then move to the
Scoping Instance of the Base Server profile in the Implementation namespace.
The Scoping Instance represents the managed server and is associated with many
other objects in the Implementation namespace. The Scoping Instance provides a
reliable point from which to navigate to CIM objects that represent any part of
the managed server.