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Pegasus - A Manageability Services Broker for the DMTF CIM/WBEM Standards

OpenPegasus - A Manageability Services Broker for the DMTF CIM/WBEM Standards

Author: Mike Brasher, Karl Schopmeyer

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Tagline: OpenPegasus is an object manager for DMTF CIM objects written in C++

and supported by The Open Group

STATUS: Revised March 10 to match Pegasus release 2.3

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NOTE: Obsolete. See readme.html

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1. Overview

2. Availability of Pegasus

3. Pegasus major components

4. Pegasus Dependencies

5. The Pegasus Directory Structure

6. Installation

7. Building Pegasus

8. Populate the Repository

9. The MU Utility

10. Notes about Building Pegasus on Linux

11. Notes about Building Pegasus on Mac OS X/Darwin

12. Notes on building Pegasus with SSL

13. Building Pegasus on Windows 2000 or Windows XP With Microsoft Visual C++

14. Installing the Pegasus HTML Test Client

15. Development with Pegasus and Pegasus Tools

16. Commands

17. Creating SSL certifications.

18. Configuring Pegasus to use SSL

19. Configuring Pegasus to use PAM

20. Testing with ICU enabled

21. Documentation

22. Participate

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Tagline: Pegasus is an object manager for DMTF CIM objects written in C++

1. Overview:

and supported buy The Open Group

============

Pegasus is an object manager for DMTF CIM objects. It is written in C++ and

OpenPegasus (also refered to as Pegasus):

includes the Object manager, a set of defined interfaces, and SDKs for both

client, providers, and services extensions. It is maintained consistent with

Pegasus is an open-source object manager for DMTF CIM objects. It is written

the DMTF CIM and WBEM specifications except for any exceptions noted in the

in C++ and includes the Object manager, a set of defined interfaces, and SDKs

documentation.

for both client, providers, and services extensions. It is maintained

consistent with the DMTF CIM and WBEM specifications except for any exceptions

noted in the documentation.

This distribution represents a work in progress towards building a Pegasus

release. Pegasus is open source and is covered under the following license.

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(LICENSE) of this release. This licensing is intended to support as wide a

distribution as possible with minimal demands on the users.

This distribution represnts a snapshot of the current work. Currently Pegasus

This distribution represents a snapshot of the current work. Currently Pegasus

is in phase 1 of a multiphase development project. This snapshot is primarily

for developers and for evaluation of the project.

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In addition, the roadmap for Pegasus and further information on the project is

available on The Opengroup Pegasus WEB Site.

http://www.opengroup.org/MSB

http://www.openpegasus.org

2. Availability of Pegasus:

============================

Pegasus is distributed as open source. The distribution is available via

CVS and snapshot images in tar and zip file formats.

The source code from CVS can be found at the following Open Group CVS server;

cvs.opengroup.org:/cvs/MSB

using the password authenticating server option (pserve).

Availability of Pegasus

Anonymous access for read is with the name and password "anon" as follows:

=======================

Pegasus is distributed as open source. Today the distribution is limited

%export CVSROOT=:pserver:anon@cvs.opengroup.org:/cvs/MSB

because we want to reach a predefined level of development before making the

%cvs login

project publically available. The move from limited to open distribution will

be a decision of the Pegasus development team and The Open Group and should

occur before March 2001.

To get on the distribution list for Pegasus today, send an email to

When requested, enter the password "anon"

m.kirk@opengroup.org

The source tree is in the directory pegasus. To check out the complete Pegasus

source tree just type:

cvs co pegasus

k.schopmeyer@opengroup.org

A Pegasus directory will be created under the current directory and populated

with the complete source tree and documentation. To get the latest updates

after a checkout just type this from Pegasus root:

Pegasus Major Components

cvs update -d

========================

Active contributors to Pegasus have write access to the CVS repository.

If you are interested in contributing back to the Pegasus project,

(i.e. write (checkin) access to CVS) please request access from either

Martin Kirk (m.kirk@opengroup.org) or Karl Schopmeyer (k.schopmeyer@opengroup.org).

3. Pegasus Major Components:

=============================

The major components of Pegasus are:

Pegasus Server - WBEM/CIM Server with interfaces for providers and clients

Pegasus Repository - Today Pegasus provides a defined class repository

Pegasus Repositories - Today Pegasus provides a defined class repository

interface and a simple file based class repository. Future will include

interface and a simple file based class repository. It also includes

the object [MEB: instance?] repository

an instance repository. Note that these repository were created for

functionality, not efficieny. It is expected that they will be replaced

with other implementations of the respository function as the need arises.

Pegasus Client SDK - Tools for building Pegasus clients based on the Pegasus

C++ interfaces and using the WBEM HTTP/XML protocols or directly

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Pegasus HTML Test Client - To aid in testing we created a test client for

Pegasus that uses a WEB server (ex. Apache) with a set of CGI modules and

HTML to allow the entry of Pegasus operations from a WEB browser as forms

and the recept of the response as WEB pages. This has proven useful as a

and the receipt of the response as WEB pages. This has proven useful as a

test tool and can be used for a wide variety of demonstrations.

Pegasus Providers - Future (Version 1.0)

Pegasus Provider SDK - Tools for building Pegasus providers using the Pegasus

C++ interfaces.

Pegasus Providers - Providers to illustrate the use of Pegasus services including

providers for test and demonstration.

Pegasus Service Extensions - Future (version 1.0)

Pegasus Service Extensions - Common services for use by other Pegasus

components to extend Pegasus capabilites.

Pegasus MOF Compiler - Future (Version 0.9)

Pegasus MOF Compiler - FA standalone compiler for MOF files that can be used

to install MOF into the Pegasus schema repository and also to check syntax.

There is also a tool to extract the MOF from the repository.

Pegasus Dependencies

====================

4. Pegasus Dependencies:

=========================

We have worked to minimize the dependence of Pegasus on other software

packages and tools. Currently Pegasus has the following dependencies

packages and tools. Currently Pegasus has the following dependencies:

1. ACE_Wrappers communication package - The ACE Wrappers package is used for

1. GNUMAKE - To simplify the building of Pegasus across multiple platforms we

communication and some low level functions within the MSB, the Pegasus client

have standardized on a set of build tools including: GNUMAKE. We are using

SDK, and the Pegasus Provider SDK. ACE is available from the following site.

GNUMAKE 3.79.1 successfully both in Windows and Linux environments.

http://ace.cs.wustl.edu/cvsweb/ace-cvs.cgi/ACE_wrappers/

GNUMAKE is available from

Currently we are using version 5.1 of ACE_Wrappers both in Linux and Windows.

http://www.gnu.org

http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE_wrappers/ACE-5.1.tar.gz

COMMENTS: Pegasus only uses limited facilities from ACE. However, today we

2. MU.EXE - To minimize the difference between Linux and Windows for GNUMAKE,

demand the installation of the complete ACE library. One of the action items

we have created a utility called MU.exe. This utility is required for

for the future is to provide a more limited ACE library and possibly even to

Pegasus make with ONLY Windows environment. It is provided as an alternative to

provide an environment independent of ACE. This will depend on the demands of

requiring a number of UNIX utilities (SH, RM, etc.) on the windows platform

the users.

and effectively provides the functions of these utilities that GNUMAKE

needs. MU is not required on UNIX or LINUX platforms.

2. To simplify the building of Pegasus across multiple platforms we have

NOTE: The binary for MU.EXE is not distributed in the Pegasus bin directory.

standardized on a set of build tools including: GNUMAKE. We are using GNUAKE

You must build it separately. MU source code is part of the distribution

4.79.1 successfully both in Windows and Linux environments.

in the directory src/utils/MU with its own make file. You must compile MU

before you initiate the Pegausu make.

GNUMAKE is available from

NOTE: A copy of the binary is made available as a zip file on the Pegasus

WEB site.

http://www.gnu.org

Again, MU is used ONLY if you are using Windows.

3. FLEX and BISON - These tools were used to develop the MOF compiler and WQL

parser. Anybody intending to recompile the compiler or parser from scratch

will be required to have these tools. They are only required if changes need

to be made to the files for parsing and compiling.

ATTN: I think we need to make our version available on the TOG site.

COMMENT: Unless other users of Pegasus demand it, we will NOT create any build

4. DLCOMPAT - dlcompat is a dlopen(3) et.al. compatibility library for

environment for Pegasus that does not require GNUMAKE (e.g., Visual C++). We

Mac OS X/Darwin.

are open to other developers who want to contribute other build structures for

particular environments.

NOTE: The dlcompat is not distributed with pegasus source.

3. MU.EXE - To minimize the difference between Linux and Windows for GUNMAKE,

dlcomapt is available from

we have created a utility called MU.exe. The source for this is available

with the distribution and the binary is distributed in the bin directory of

the the snapshots for now.

[MEB: the binary for MU.EXE is not distributed in the bin directory; you

http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/dlcompat/

have to build it at this time]

[MEB: MU.EXE is only needed on Windows]

Again, dlcomapt needs to be installed ONLY if you are using Mac OS X/Darwin.

[STOPPED]

5. DOC++ - The Pegasus documentation is taken from a combination of text files

and the Pegasus header files themselves. This documentation is formatted

with DOC++ and GAWK. These tools are required if the documentation is to

be recreated but we expect that only the core team will be recreating

documentaiton.

The Pegasus Directory Structure

===============================

5. The Pegasus Directory Structure

===================================

Pegasus is distributed as a complete directory structure that should be

installed either from one of the snapshots or from CVS.

This structure is generally as follows

Pegasus Root directory

Pegasus Pegasus Root directory

bin

build Destination for all intermediate files from build

cgi Source for the Pegasus WEB Based Test client

bin Destination for executable and DLL modules from

cgi-bin CGI Directories for WEB demonstration.

Pegasus build

This directory is normally empty but can

lib

be populated from the runtime with the make

obj

from cgi.

cgi-bin Source and make for the Pegasus WEB Based Test client software

htdocs HTML Pages for Pegasus WEB emonstration

doc Miscelaneous Pegasus Documents. Includes the DMTF XML for CIM 2.4

doc Miscellaneous Pegasus Documents.

html HTML files for the Browser test client.

DevManual Source and build files for developers' manual

mak General make files (used by the root make and other makes)

mak General make files (used by other makes)

Repository This Directory containes the created repository

src All Pegasus Source Files

ACEExamples Test directrory with examples of the use of ACE (developers)

ACEExample Test directrory with examples of the use of ACE (obsolete).

Clients Source for various test clients and client SDK

CGICLIENT Pegasus test client that uses a WEB browser

JAVA Java Client support modules

Pegasus

CGI CGI files for the WEB test client

Client Pegasus Client API Tests

CGIClient

Client Pegasus Client SDK and Test client using the SDK

depends

tests

Common Pegasus Common Functions (C++ source and headers

tests Test programs for the common functions

Compiler Pegasus MOF compiler

Config TBD

Consumer TBD

ControlProvidersImplementation of Pegasus internal providers

ExportClient TBD

ExportServer TBD

Handler TBD

HandlerService TBD

IndicationService TBD

Listener TBD

Protocol Pegasus Client HTTP/XML Protocol Modules

depends

Provider Pegasus Provider interface functions

ProviderManager Provider Manager service that manages providers

ProviderManager2Pluggable Provider Manager service

Repository Pegasus Repository Interfaces and Simple Repository

tests Tests for Repository Functions

Security TBD

Server Pegasus Server Modules

depends

WQL TBD

tests

Providers Pegasus test and required providers

generic TBD this and following

Utils

IndicationConsumer

manual Pegasus User/developer manual source modules

Linux

HTML Output from the Pegasus Manual compilartion.

ManaedSystem

slp

statistic

sample

testproviders

Server Pegasus executable build

slp

StandardIncludes

tools MU and other utilities written for Pegasus support

Unsupported Code that is made available but is not supported or included

in the normal make.

WMIMapper Pegasus implementation that implements mapping to Microsoft

WMI objects.

Runtime Directories

$PEGASUS_HOME$ Home directory for runtime. All compiler, linker

documentation creation, etc. is put here.

bin Destination for executable and DLL modules from

Pegasus build

Manual HTML output of the Pegasus Manual

lib Destination for Pegasus LIB modules

obj Destination for object modules

repository This Directory contains the created repository

In the near future we will add directories for:

Service Extensions

6. Installation

Providers

================

Pegasus today is provided only as a source distribution.

Installation

To install Pegasus, you must check it out using CVS (Common Version System)

============

or download the snapshot. You download, compile, and use it.

Pegasus today is provided only as a source distribution. You download compile and use it.

For the snapshot, the installation of Pegasus involves expanding the snapshot

Pegasus currently compiles and runs under both Linux and Windows NT environments.

distribution files, building the runtime, the test files and test clients, and

building the repository.

The installation of Pegasus involves expanding the snapshot distribution files, building the

runtime, the test files and test clients, and building the repository.

NOTE: Since the compiler integration is not complete today, the class repository is populated

7. Building Pegasus

from the XML defintions for the complete CIM schema. This process is included in the build

=====================

process so that at the end of a complete build, the class repository is completely populated

from the CIM 2.4 release schema.

1. Check that you have requisite programs (listed in Pegasus Dependencies).

Building from a Distribution --- General

These include GNU Make, MU.EXE (if using Windows), Flex, and Bison (Flex

========================================

and Bison only required if changes will be made to the MOF compiler or WQL

parser),dlcompat (if using Mac OS X/Darwin).

Pegasus is buildable and runnable on either Linux or WIndows Platforms today.

Be sure these are on your path.

It uses a common build system for the two platforms based on build files and

GUNMAKE.

Generally we support four targets in our make system:

2. Define the following three environment variables:

C:\> make clean

PEGASUS_ROOT - this should be the "pegasus" directory you've pulled from CVS

C:\> make depend

C:\> make

C:\> make tests

The Pegasus Client server tests are executed separately from the above because they require

PEGASUS_HOME - to point to a directory to contain output binary files

the initiation of separate process for the Pegasus server and Pegasus client. These tests can

(e.g., set it to $HOME/pegasus_home). Then the output will go into

be executed as follows:

$HOME/pegasus_home/bin and $HOME/pegasus_home/lib

ATTN: Add the procedure for Client/Server Test start here.

PEGASUS_PLATFORM - this must be set to a supported platform identifier.

This identifier has the following form:

For information on particular installation characteristics, tools, etc. for each platform see

<Operating-System>_<Architecture>_<Compiler>

the appropriate sections below:

Generally the build commands are as follows:

For example (Linux on IA32 platform using the GNU Compiler):

LINUX_IX86_GNU

1. There is a Makefile in the Pegasus root. Simply executing make in the Pegasus

For a complete list, refer to the platform_ make files found in directory

root directory will make everything.

pegasus/mak

2. In order to provide a working class repository for Pegasus until the MOF compiler

is integrated, There is a utility to load the CIM Schema from XML into the repository.

This executes the LoadRepository executable which is defined in

pegasus/src/Pegasus/Repository/tests/LoadRepository

Note: if you plan on doing parallel builds, you might consider setting

PEGASUS_HOME to something like this:

with the binary in pegasus/bin. This program will load the CIM XML repository

$HOME/pegasus_home_LINUX_IX86_GNU

definitions into the class repository.

3. To test a fresh release, go to the pegasus root and type

That way, the output of each build will be placed in its own directory.

"make world".

3. Now place $PEGASUS_HOME/bin on your path

and

This will clean, build dependencies, build binaries, and then run all

Place $PEGASUS_HOME/lib on your LD_LIBRARY_PATH (for Unix only).

tests except the Client/Server tests.

For RedHat/SuSE/UL, edit /etc/ld.so.conf and add $PEGASUS_HOME/lib

4. To execute the basic test suite that is shipped with pegasus type

"make tests"

4. Change to the root of the Pegasus distrubution and type "make"

(where make refers to GNU make).

5. To run the Client/Server tests provided, simply type

5. Then create the repository, which is needed to serve data.

"make repository"

"make tests"

6. To test the build type "make tests".

Running "make -s tests" suppresses extraneous output such as the

The following make targets are supported:

enter/leave directory messages.

6. "Make Clean" removes all object and library files from the

<default> - Build everything.

structure.

clean - Clean out all objects, libs, and executables.

depend - Create the dependencies.

repository - Create the repository in $PEGASUS_HOME/repository

tests - Execute all tests (except client server tests).

rebuild - clean, depend, <default>

world - depend, <default>

Build Variables

The Pegasus Client server tests are executed separately from the above because

===============

they require the initiation of separate process for the Pegasus server and

Pegasus client. To execute these tests please refer to the scripts in

pegasus/mak/BuildMakefile - refer to the prestarttests and poststarttests.

The build system depends on the following environment variables

For information on particular installation characteristics, tools, etc. for

each platform see the appropriate sections below:

PEGASUS_ACE_ROOT - required (points to ACE_wrappers directory). This must be set

Generally the build commands are as follows:

before you initiate make

PEGASUS_BUILD - optional (points to build directory; defaults to build

1. There is a Makefile in the Pegasus root directory. Simply executing

directory under root of pegasus distribution). This must be set before you iniiate

make in the Pegasus root directory will make everything. "make rebuild"

make

will clean and rebuild everything. The "make rebuild" will also populate

the repository with the current CIM Schemas.

PEGASUS_OS_TYPE - optional. The is currently set to windows. If you build on Linux

2. To test a fresh release, go to the pegasus root and type

you must change this before initiating make.

COMMENTS: In the future, we will probably automate this more. However, setting these

"make world".

variables today is manual.

The MU Utility

This will build dependencies, build binaries, and then run all

==============

tests except the Client/Server tests.

In order to provide a consistent build structure across multiple platforms, we developed a

3. To execute the basic test suite that is shipped with pegasus type

small utility to provide a consistent set of small utilities across these platforms. The MU

utilityis a simple utility that contains many commands. For example:

"make tests". This also reintalls the repository.

C:\> mu rm myfile.cpp yourfile.cpp

Running "make -s tests" suppresses extraneous output such as the

enter/leave directory messages.

4. "make clean" removes all object and library files from the structure.

You may type "mu" to get a list of valid commands. Here are some

of them:

5. A new build system has been added to Pegasus where a new CVS checkout is done,

built, and tests are run. Do it by: "make -f mak/BuildMakefile cleanbuild"

rm, rmdirhier, mkdirhier, echo, touch, pwd, copy, move, compare depend

8. Populate the Repository

===========================

The MU utility supports globing (expansion of wildcards) so

Before using Pegasus you must populate the repository with the providers. The makefile

you can do things like this:

does it all for you, but in case you are wondering what it does or how to do it

manually:

1. Register the MOF (Managed Object Format) file describing the skeleton of the object.

2. Register a second MOF which only points out which lib*.so file to be loaded when a

specific object is activated.

C:\> mu rm *.obj *.exe

This is done automatically for the providers included in Pegasus by doing:

make repository.

MU is required to build under the Windows environment.MU is available as part of the

The 'make repository' in pegasus/Schemas does three things

distribution of Pegasus.

Runs MOF compiler (cimmofl) on:

-Schema v2.7

Generates the CIM Schema v2.7 in the repository (skeleton of CIM objects)

-PG_InterOp

Internal to Pegasus schema for operating (shutdown, add users, etc)

CIM_Indication�s (SNMP, Events, Alert, Threshold, etc)

-PG_ManagedSystem

Registers included CIM Providers (libOSProvider.so, libDNSProvider.so, � )

in Pegasus (which are located in src/Providers)

Building Pegausu on Linux

For more information about using the MOF compiler, refer to user's manual on the

=========================

openpegasus.org.

1. Obtain, unpack and build the ACE_Wrappers package for Linux.

2. Define an environment variable called ACE_ROOT that points to the root of the ACE_WRAPPERS

9. The MU Utility

distribution. For example

===================

IMPORT ACE_ROOT=\local\ACE_Wrappers

In order to provide a consistent build structure across multiple platforms, we

developed a small utility to provide a consistent set of small utilities

across these platforms. The MU utilityis a simple utility that contains many

commands. For example:

ATTN: Mike. what is a viable directory for Linux (what do you use)

3. Define an environment variable PEGASUS_ROOT that points to the

C:\> mu rm myfile.cpp yourfile.cpp

root of the Pegasus Distribution

4. Append %PEGASUS_ROOT%/bin to your path

5. Unpack the ace distribution.

You may type "mu" to get a list of valid commands. Here are some

of them:

ATTN: Unpack with what since ZIP.

5. Build using the make commands defined in the section on General Build.

rm, rmdirhier, mkdirhier, echo, touch, pwd, copy, move, compare depend

make world

make tests

Building Pegasus on NT or Windows 2000 With Visual C++

The MU utility supports globing (expansion of wildcards) so

=======================================================

you can do things like this:

Today we build Pegasus on Windows NT using a set of make files contained

in the source distribution, the Microsoft compilers (tested so far with

versions 5 and 6) and the GNUMAKE make utility. The following is the basic

set up steps for the

C:\> mu rm *.obj *.exe

1. Setup the environment variables and path for the Micrososft Visual C compiler.

MU is required to build under the Windows environment.MU is available as part

Typically this can be done by running the VCVARS32.BAT file supplied with Microsoft Visual

of the distribution of Pegasus.

C++. (contained in the same directory as cl.exe).

2. Define an environment variable called ACE_ROOT that points to the

root of the ACE_Wrappers distribution. For example:

C:\> set PEGASUS_ACE_ROOT=c:/ACE_wrappers

10. Notes about Building Pegasus on Linux

===========================================

Now append %ACE_ROOT%/bin to the path like this:

No problem. Just make sure you have the environment variables set.

C:\> set path=%path%;%PEGASUS_ACE_ROOT%/bin

3. Define an environment variable called PEGASUS_ROOT that points to

11. Notes about Building Pegasus on Mac OS X/Darwin

the root of the Pegasus distribution. For example:

=====================================================

C:\> set PEGASUS_ROOT=c:/pegasus

No problem. Just make sure you have the environment variables set.

Now append %PEGASUS_ROOT%/bin to your path like this:

set path=%path%;%PEGASUS_ROOT%/bin

12. Notes about Building Pegasus with SSL

==========================================

4. Unpack and build the ACE_Wrappers distribution for windows.

To build with SSL you need the OpenSSL libraries and header files. Make sure

you have them in a standard directory so Pegasus can find them. If that's not

the case, set the environment varialble OPENSSL_HOME= to point where your OpenSSL

installation is.

Also have the PEGASUS_HAS_SSL=yes variable set. Then just run 'make' in Pegasus

directory and you will have Pegasus with SSL enabled. See section "Creating SSL

certificates" for more information of how to use SSL.

13. Building Pegasus on Windows 2000 (SP3 or later recommended) or Windows XP

With Microsoft Visual C++

======================================================================

Today we build Pegasus on Windows using a set of make files contained

in the source distribution, the Microsoft compilers (DevStudio 5.x is not

supported, Visual Studio 6.0, SP5 supported) and the GNUMAKE make utility.The

following is the basic setup steps for the environment.

Setup the environment variables and path for the Micrososft Visual C compiler.

Typically this can be done by running the VCVARS32.BAT file supplied with

Microsoft Visual C++. (contained in the same directory as cl.exe).

For Windows, try the following for an example environment:

REM call the standard Microsoft .bat for VC 6 setup.

call 'C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/VC98/Bin/Vcvars32.bat'

REM Set debug to something if you want compile in debug mode

set PEGASUS_DEBUG=true

REM set PEGASUS_ROOT to top of source tree

set PEGASUS_ROOT=C:/cimom/pegasus

REM set PEGASUS_HOME to where you want repository and executables

set PEGASUS_HOME=%PEGASUS_ROOT%

REM setup the path to the runtime files.

set path=%path%;%PEGASUS_HOME%/bin

14. Installing the Pegasus HTML Test Client:

=============================================

This is a separate test tool that allows Pegasus requests to be initiated from

any WEB browser and that uses a WEB browser, CGI scritps and HTML pages for

the formating and connections. It requires a WEB server, etc. The

instructions for setting up this environment are maintained in a separate

readme in the CGI directory.

As an example, we created a file called %ACE_ROOT%/ace/config.h

containing the following:

#include "ace/config-win32.h"

15. Development with Pegasus and Pegasus Tools:

================================================

and then opened this DSW file in MSVC++ IDE:

ATTN: This section needs to be completed. It should reference the more

complete documentation

ATTN: Write about providers?

%ACE_ROOT%/ace/ace.dsw

From the build menu we picked "aced.dll". For me it built without complaint.

16. Commands:

=============

BUG: there is still one open problem that has not been resolved. With

The manpages for each of the commands are in rpm/manLinux/man1.Z directory (on CVS)

the Visucal C++ version 6 compiler, the ace libraries default to

acemfc.dll

To see simple help for each of the commands, use the "-h" flag.

Examples:

bin/cimserver �s (Shuts it down)

bin/cimserver traceLevel=4 traceComponents=ALL (starts server with config flags)

bin/cimprovider �l �s (lists providers and their status)

bin/cimprovider �e �m OperatingSystemModule (enables the OperatingSystem provider)

bin/cimuser �a �u guest �w ThePassword

bin/cimuser �l (lists the users)

bin/tomof CIM_Config (extract CIM_Config from repository and present it in MOF type)

With the version 5 visual C, apparently they default to the names

ace.dll

17. Creating SSL certifications

================================

aced.dll (debug verions

We will correct this in a future snapshot.

Please follow section 11, titled "Notes about Building Pegasus with SSL"

before embarking on this endeavour.

Type these commands in your shell to create the SSL certifications. The PEGASUS_ROOT

and PEGASUS_HOME have to be set to your respective installation and source directory.

5. Unpack the Pegasus distribution. On Windows systems, PKzip25 or WINZIP can be used.

CN="Common Name"

Be certain to use the option that expands the directory tree of the files. This expansionwill

EMAIL="test@email.address"

create a directory called ./pegasus

HOSTNAME=`uname -n`

sed -e "s/$CN/$HOSTNAME/" \

-e "s/$EMAIL/root@$HOSTNAME/" $PEGASUS_ROOT/src/Server/ssl.cnf \

> $PEGASUS_HOME/ssl.cnf

chmod 644 $PEGASUS_HOME/ssl.cnf

chown bin $PEGASUS_HOME/ssl.cnf

chgrp bin $PEGASUS_HOME/ssl.cnf

If you are using pkzip25.exe do this:

/usr/bin/openssl req -x509 -days 365 -newkey rsa:512 \

C:\> pkzip25 -extract -recurse -directories pegasus.zip

-nodes -config $PEGASUS_HOME/ssl.cnf \

-keyout $PEGASUS_HOME/key.pem -out $PEGASUS_HOME/cert.pem

This will create a directory tree called ./pegasus under the

cat $PEGASUS_HOME/key.pem $PEGASUS_HOME/cert.pem > $PEGASUS_HOME/server.pem

current directory.

cp $PEGASUS_HOME/cert.pem $PEGASUS_HOME/client.pem

rm $PEGASUS_HOME/key.pem $PEGASUS_HOME/cert.pem

ATTN: Define for Linux also

18. Configuring Pegasus to use SSL

================================

6. Change directory to %PEGASUS_ROOT% and type "make world". See the general build section

Please follow section 11 and 16 before reading this section.

for the full set of make commands.

This builds Pegasus and all of its examples.

To configure Pegasus to take advantage of SSL, configure

CIMserver to have the following configuration options set to:

7. To verify that it built okay, run the tests

sslTrustFilePath=client.pem

sslCertificateFilePath=server.pem

sslKeyFilePath=file.pem

httpsPort=5989

enableHttpsConnection=true

make tests

using the 'cimconfig' utility:

Installing the Pegasus HTML Test Client

cimconfig -p -s enableHttpsConnection=true

=======================================

This is a separate test tool that allows Pegasus requests to be initiated from any WEB browser

(The client.pem and server.pem are the certifications

and that uses a WEB browser, CGI scritps and HTML pages for the formating and connections. It

files created per the steps in the earlier section).

requires a WEB server, etc. The instructions for setting up this environment are maintained

in a separate readme in the CGI directory.

Development with Pegasus and Pegasus Tools

For good riddance you might consider closing down

==========================================

the cleartext 5988 port. Modify your CIMserver to

(using 'cimconfig') to have the option:

ATTN: This section needs to be completed. It should reference the more

enableHttpConnection=false

complete documentation

19.PAM Authentication

===================

Documentation

The documentation is currently in preperation. The preliminary documentation is not provided

with this snapshot but is avialable from the OpenGroup Pegasus WEB pages. The current

documentation is maintained both as a manual created under the tool DOC++ in the

subdirectory manual/html and as other miscelaneous documentation in the doc directory.

Note that the Pegasus WEB site at The Open Group will be the source of most documentation in

the future and today is the source of most discussion and design documentation.

Participate!

============

We are looking for people who want to join the effort of getting this

next release off the ground. Please send me email for details.

In order to use PAM Authentication you have to compile Pegasus

with one extra enviroment flags:

PEGASUS_PAM_AUTHENTICATION=1

You can also set the PEGASUS_ALWAYS_USE_PAM=1 flag to disable

Pegasus password authentication using a flag text-file (recommended).

After compiling (refer to section 17 for details), follow these two

important steps:

a). Copy the rpm/wbem file in-to /etc/pam.d directory.

This notifies PAM what kind of libraries to use when authenticating

Pegasus.

b). Modify CIMserver configuration options:

usePAMAuthentication=true

enableAuthentication=true

And if you want to allow 'root' (*not recommended*)

enableRemotePrivilegedUserAccess=true

using the 'cimconfig' operation, such as:

cimconfig -p -s usePAMAuthentication=true

The user is authenticated using HTTP Basic method, thererfore it is

strongly suggested you use SSL connection instead of normal HTTP connection.

Refer to section 16 for more details on creating and using SSL keys.

20. Testing with ICU enabled:

==============================

ICU (International Compoments for Unicode) refers to the set of libraries that

Pegasus uses to run globalized. For example: these libraries are used to

load messages in different languages, format currency and numbers according to

a specific locale etc. In order to enable globalization in Pegasus, Pegasus

must be built with ICU enabled, ie. the right environment variables must be

set prior to running "make". Refer to the GlobalizationHOWTO.htm in the docs

directory for details. That said, when users run "make poststarttests"

to verify the integrity of a Pegasus download, a series of tests are run that

require the cimserver to be running. These tests currently depend on specific

messages returned from the server. When ICU is enabled, all messages come

from the resource bundles and these usually do not match the hardcoded

default messages within Pegasus. These hardcoded default messages

are what the various test programs expect in order to complete

successfully. If the ICU enabled server is started without

disabling message loading from the bundles, "make poststartests" will fail.

In order to run "make poststarttests" successfully with ICU enabled, an

environment variable called PEGASUS_USE_DEFAULT_MESSAGES must exist prior to

starting the server. Once this is defined, when the cimserver starts, all

messages generated will be the default hardcoded messages. This will enable

"make poststarttests" to complete successfully. Once "make poststarttests" is

complete, you should stop the cimserver and then undefine PEGASUS_USE_DEFAULT_MESSAGES.

If this variable is left defined, Pegasus will not be able to load messages

using ICU resource bundles.

21. Documentation:

===================

The documentation is currently in preperation. The preliminary documentation

is not provided with this snapshot but is avialable from the OpenGroup Pegasus

WEB pages. The current documentation is maintained both as a manual created

under the tool DOC++ in the runtime subdirectory manual/html and as other

miscelaneous documentation in the doc directory.

Note that the Pegasus WEB site at The Open Group will be the source of most

documentation in the future and today is the source of most discussion and

design documentation.

22. Participate!

=================

We are looking for people who want to join the Pegasus work group and

contribute to effort of getting this Pegasus off the ground. Please join

the mailing list by visiting www.openpegasus.org, and click on Mailing Lists.

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