The CIM standard provides the ability to develop management application that work with the systems management data exposed by the CIM providers included with i5/OS™.
To work with CIM, developers should have a thorough understanding of the CIM standard defined by the DMTF. For more information about the CIM standard, see CIM Specification 2.2 on the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) Web site.
Pegasus on i5/OS does not support Service Location Protocol (SLP).
Pegasus also includes development tools, samples and reference material.
IBM® has included providers with i5/OS that support basic operating system information and some performance metrics.