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Pegasus

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"

align="center">Pegasus

Enhancement Proposal (PEP)<o:p></o:p>

PEP #: 306

PEP #: 345

Title: Release

Notes for OpenPegasus 2.7.0

Notes for OpenPegasus 2.9.0

Created: 3 October 2007

Created: 05 January 2009

Authors: Karl Schopmeyer

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Version History:

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<o:p> </o:p>3

October 2007

05 January 2009

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Initial

Submission<o:p>

Submission <o:p>

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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;" align="center" height="21">8 October 2007</td>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt;" align="center" height="21">16 Jananuary 2008</td>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt;" align="center" height="21">Karl Schopmeyer</td>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt;" height="21">Incorporate data from 2.6.1

<td style="padding: 0.75pt;" height="21">Update with comments from 1.0 incorporated.</td>

release notes. Fix per comments in 1.0</td>

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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;" align="center" height="21">11 October 2007</td>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt;" align="center" height="21">Karl Schopmeyer</td>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt;" height="21">Comments from V 1.1 and add

existing document links. Add pep 302 to enhancements</td>

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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;" align="center" height="21">15 October 2007</td>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt;" align="center" height="21">Karl Schopmeyer</td>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt;" height="21">Add final links</td>

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width="100%"></div>

Abstract: This document defines the release notes for the

2.7.0 release of the OpenPegasus CIM Server. The purpose of this PEP is

2.9.0 release of the OpenPegasus CIM Server. The purpose of this PEP is

to summarize the characteristics of this release, point to other

documentation that defines the release in more detail, and provide

additional information about this release that is not available in the

other Pegasus documentation.

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<h2 style="margin-bottom: 1px;"><o:p> Contents</o:p></h2>

<ol>

<li><a href="#Availability_of_this_Release_">Availability of this

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<li><a href="#Conformance%20with%20DMTF%20Specifications">Conformance

with DMTF Specifications</a></li>

<li><a href="#PEGASUS%20Bugs">OpenPegasus Bugs</a></li>

<li> <a

<li> <a href="#Pegasus%20Release%20Control%20and%20Version%20Definition%20Documentation">OpenPegasus

href="#Pegasus%20Release%20Control%20and%20Version%20Definition%20Documentation">OpenPegasus

Release Control and Version Definition Documentation</a></li>

<li><a href="#General%20Documentation">General

Documentation</a></li>

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<li>Source release in both ZIP (and ZIP EXE) and TAR formats.

These can be

downloaded from the OpenPegasus Web

site at <a

site at <a href="http://www.openpegasus.org/page.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&ggid=392">www.openpegasus.org.</a> </li>

href="http://www.openpegasus.org/page.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&ggid=392">www.openpegasus.org.</a> </li>

<li>OpenPegasus source RPMs on the OpenPegasus web site.. A source RPM is  available on the

OpenPegasus web site that can be used to build binaries for most LSB-compliant RPM-based Linux distributions and versions.</li>

<li>The Pegasus CVS repository. The CVS tags representing this

release and

subsequent snapshots that are made available in the Pegasus CVS are

defined on the OpenPegasus CVS repository web page (see the <a

defined on the OpenPegasus CVS repository web page (see the <a href="http://cvs.opengroup.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/">OpenPegasus

href="http://cvs.opengroup.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/">OpenPegasus

CVS page</a> for information) using the tags defined on the <a href="http://www.openpegasus.org/page.tpl?CALLER=cvs.tpl&ggid=392">release

CVS page</a> for information) using the tags defined on the <a

href="http://www.openpegasus.org/page.tpl?CALLER=cvs.tpl&ggid=392">release

snapshots page</a>.</li>

</ul>

The instructions for acquiring the released code are on the <a

The instructions for acquiring the released code are on the <a href="http://www.openpegasus.org/page.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&ggid=392">Pegasus

href="http://www.openpegasus.org/page.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&ggid=392">Pegasus

WEB site</a>.

Installation instructions are part of the README in the root of the

Pegasus source

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that is available on the OpenPegasus web site .  That web page shows the

Pegasus users and developers the status of the various features found in Pegasus

using a simple color coded key (white, red, yellow, green) and a description of

each feature.Pegasus 2.7.0

each feature.Pegasus 2.9.0

is a major release, extending Pegasus 2.6 in selected

is a major release, extending the previous Pegasus release in selected

areas as described in the Pegasus  PEP defining this release

.

The major areas of development for this release  were as follows. For

more information access the PEP for each change defined:

Table of Major Changes for this Release

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borderColorLight=#CCCCCC border=1 width="82%">

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<TBODY>

<th bgcolor="#00ffff">Description of Change</th>

<TH bgColor=#00FFFF>Description of Change</TH>

<th bgcolor="#00ffff" width="128">Posted PEP Version</th>

<TH bgColor=#00FFFF width="128">Posted PEP Version</TH>

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<td align="left" width="75%">WS-Management Support in CIM Server - Phase II</td>

<TD align="left" width="75%">Add Platform support IBM i5/PASE - Portable Application

Solutions Environment (PASE)</TD>

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1.6</a></TD>

<td align="left" width="75%">SQLite Repository</td>

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<TD align="left" width="75%">Reduce the Amount of CIM Server code that runs Privileged

(Privilege Separation)</TD>

<td align="left" width="75%">In-Memory-Tracing</td>

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1.8</a></TD>

</TR>

<td align="left" width="75%">Solaris 11 (Nevada) support for CC compiler and IX86</td>

<TD align="left" width="75%">Add Support for IPv6 - Stage 1 (Note: This functionality

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was made available but normally disabled

Pegasus 2.6.1)</TD>

<tr><td style="text-align: center;">Bug 7902</td><td>Allow modifyClass on non-leaf class</td><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7902">7902</a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center;">Bug 7996</td><td>64 bit platform support for z;/OS</td><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7996">7996</a></td></tr><tr align="center">

<td style="text-align: center;" width="7%">Bug 8074 </td><td align="left" width="75%">Significant performance enhancement in out-of-process providers (~ 300%) through binary protocol</td>

1.2</a></TD>

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<TD align="left" width="75%">Add IPV6 Support for SNMP Indication Handler

<td style="text-align: center;" width="7%">Bug 8171</td><td align="left" width="75%">Access to binary protocol for clients </td>

and include NET-SNMP indication handler in Linux RPM </TD>

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1.1</a></TD>

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<TD align="left" width="75%">Enable Remote CMPI for Windows</TD>

1.2</a></TD>

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<TD align="left" width="75%">Enhanced Log File Support</TD>

1.0</a></TD>

</TR>

<TD align="left" width="75%">Add support for certificate-based authentication audit

logging</TD>

1.5</a></TD>

</TR>

<TD width="7%">Bugzilla 6466</TD>

<TD align="left" width="75%">Add two new trace components to facilitate

triage of indication delivery issues</TD>

Bug 6466</a></TD>

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The status of several components of Pegasus functionality change status

between Pegasus versions. <a name="comtag_116">Features that

have changed status can be identified by a change in color from the previous

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for more information.

<h3>Information on  IPv6 Support (PEP 291)</h3>

NOTE: This functionality was incorporated in OpenPegasus 2.7.0 but it

was felt that the information below was worth repeating in subsequent Release

Notes

IPv6 is short for "Internet

Protocol

Version 6". IPv6 is the "next generation" protocol designed by the IETF

to replace the current version Internet Protocol, IP Version 4

("IPv4"). IPv6 Support for OpenPegasus is documented in <a

("IPv4"). IPv6 Support for OpenPegasus is documented in <a href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/uploads/40/14222/PEP_291_IPv6.html">

href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/uploads/40/14222/PEP_291_IPv6.html">

PEP

PEP

291</a>.

The IPv6 support in OpenPegasus is

controlled by the PEGASUS_ENABLE_IPV6 build variable. The default for this

variable is "true"; setting this to

'false' before building OpenPegasus will disable the IPv6 support.

The following subsections provide

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case a host with an IPv6-configured network interface would be

specified as:

<div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">osinfo -h

<div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(153, 51, 153); font-family: monospace;"><big>osinfo -h

3ffe:1:2:1 -p 5988</div>

3ffe:1:2:1 -p 5988</big></div>

But the cimcli command, which

takes

an optional "location" option including an optional port number,

requires the IPv6 address to be delimited with brackets, for example:

<div style="margin-left: 40px;">cimcli ns -l [3ffe:1:2:1]</div>

<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: monospace;"><big>cimcli ns -l [3ffe:1:2:1]</big></div>

or

<div style="margin-left: 40px;">cimcli ns -l [3ffe:1:2:1]:5989

<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><big>cimcli ns -l [3ffe:1:2:1]:5989</big>

</div>

For more information on

specifying

IPv6 addresses, refer to <a

IPv6 addresses, refer to <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2373.txt">IETF RFC 2373 - IP Version

href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2373.txt">IETF RFC 2373 - IP Version

6 Addressing Architecture</a>

and <a

and <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2732.txt">IETF RFC 2732 - Format for

href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2732.txt">IETF RFC 2732 - Format for

Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's</a>.

<h4>IPv6 on Linux</h4>

Modern Linux distributions already

contain IPv6-ready kernels, the

IPv6 capability is generally compiled as a module, but it's possible

that this module is not loaded automatically on startup.

Note:

Note:

you shouldn't anymore use kernel series 2.2.x, because it's not

you shouldn't use kernel series 2.2.x, because it's not

IPv6-up-to-date anymore. Also the IPv6 support in series 2.4.x is no

longer improved according to definitions in latest RFCs. It's recommend

to use series 2.6.x now.

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kernel supports IPv6, take a look into your /proc filesystem. The entry

/proc/net/if_inet6 must exist. A short automated test looks like:

<div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">test -f

<div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(153, 51, 153); font-family: monospace;"><big>test -f

/proc/net/if_inet6 && echo "Running kernel is IPv6 ready"</div>

/proc/net/if_inet6 && echo "Running kernel is IPv6 ready"</big></div>

For more information on

enabling

IPv6 in the Linux kernel and configuring network interfaces, refer to

<a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/">The Linux

href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/">The Linux

Documentation Project's IPv6 HOWTO</a>.

Warning:

There is currently an open issue with RedHat to address a problem that

is seen intermittently on RHEL5 and SLES10 systems. This problem is

described in <span

described in

style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">

<a href="http://cvs.opengroup.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6586">Pegasus

href="http://cvs.opengroup.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6586">Pegasus

bug 6586</a>

and<span

and

style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">

<a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=248052">RedHat

href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=248052">RedHat

bug 248052</a>,

and manifests itself as an intermittent IPv6 socket failure. You should be aware

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implementations for Windows Server

2003, Windows XP with Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows XP with Service

Pack 2 (SP2), and Windows CE .NET 4.1 and later.

On Windows XP, you can use the <span

On Windows XP, you can use the ipv6.exe tool to install, uninstall, and

style="font-weight: bold; ">ipv6.exe tool to install, uninstall, and

query

your IPv6 configuration. For example:

<div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">ipv6 install

<div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(153, 51, 153); font-family: monospace;"><big>ipv6 install

ipv6 if</div>

ipv6 if</big></div>

Windows Vista

and Windows Server 2008 support an integrated

IPv4 and IPv6 implementation known as the Next Generation TCP/IP stack.

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For more information on

installing, configuring, and using IPv6 on Windows platforms, refer to

the document

href="https://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/ipv6/ipv6faq.mspx">

IPv6

for Microsoft Windows: Frequently Asked Questions</a>.

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using the IPv6 loopback or a real IPv6-configured network interface.

For example, using the IPv6 loopback on a system with OpenPegasus

running on the WBEM standard http port of 5988:

osinfo -h ::1</div>

osinfo -h ::1</big></div>

<h2><a name="Compatibility_Considerations_">Compatibility Considerations</a></h2>

Support for forward-compatibility is a fundamental design principle for the

OpenPegasus project. As a Community, our goal is for well-behaved OpenPegasus

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significantly affects interoperability) that may require the Community to make

potentially incompatible changes. The following table contains a list of defect

fixes that MAY impact, even well-behaved, OpenPegasus Providers or Clients when

upgrading to OpenPegasus 2.7.0.

upgrading to this OpenPegasus release.

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borderColorLight=#CCCCCC border=1 width="80%">

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<th bgcolor="#00ffff" width="10%">Bugzilla #</th>

<TH bgColor=#00FFFF width=10%>Bugzilla #</TH>

<th bgcolor="#00ffff">Description</th>

<TH bgColor=#00FFFF>Description</TH>

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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8229">8229</a></td><td>The Common Information Model (CIM) Infrastructure Specification (DSP0004)

version 2.3 contains this statement in section 3.2: "If the specification

references a class without defining it first, the server must reject it as

<TD align="left">HP-UX only: Introduction of the "explicit" keyword in CIMClass.h and CIMInstance.h may introduce

invalid if it does not already have a definition of that class."

a compile error in some code. Specifically, a compiler-supplied automatic conversion from CIMObject

Previously, this check was only performed for derived classes. In

type to CIMClass or CIMInstance has been removed. The cast operation must be explicitly specified.

Pegasus 2.9, the check is also done for base classes. This may cause a

MOF file that previously loaded without problem to generate an error if it

</TD>

contains a forward reference. Note that the CIM 2.13.1 schema in the

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Pegasus source repository contained such an error in Pegasus 2.8, which is

also corrected in Pegasus 2.9.</td></tr><tr align="center">

<TD>

<td align="left">In Pegasus 2.8, the behavior of the setName() method was

WIPCR00430 recommends an unquoted charset parameter in Content-type header. See the writeup in this bug for a discussion of the validation of the charset parameter in various OpenPegasus releases. In 2.7 we perform "extended" validation that should ignore differences based on whitespace or quotes. The CR recommendation is to not use quotes on the charset parameter, but only at a time when it is expected that all CIMOMs have been updated to accept the charset parameter with or without quotes.</TD>

changed in the Pegasus C++ interface for the CIM data type model. For

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data types that use a shared representation model, the setName() method

now throws an Exception when the object is "contained" by another CIM

data object.

<TD>

Specifically, setName() may throw the new exception in these cases:

The MOF Compiler now rejects some property values that are invalid according to the DMTF specification that it previously accepted.</TD>

CIMProperty contained by CIMClass, CIMInstance, and CIMObject

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CIMQualifier contained by CIMClass, CIMInstance, CIMObject,

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CIMProperty, CIMParameter, and CIMMethod

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CIMMethod contained by CIMClass

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CIMParameter contained by CIMMethod</td>

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<td>

In Pegasus 2.8, the C++ CMPI IndicationMI function

signatures were changed to fit the CMPIIndicationMIFT definitions.

The CmpiResult parameter in CmpiIndicationMI authorizeFilter, mustPoll,

activateFilter and deActivateFilter have been removed cause it does not

exist in the CMPIIndicationMIFT definitions.

The missing CmpiContext parameter and CMPIStatus have been added to

enableIndications and disableIndications.</td>

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<td>

In Pegasus 2.8, the CMPI property filter handling performance was improved.

Two things have changed in the behaviour of the property filter

handling:

* Repeated applying of property filters onto the same instance will now

only leave the properties which build the most common dominator on the

instance.

* It is not possible anymore to add properties not defined for the

corresponding class to an instance.</td>

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<td>

In Pegasus 2.8, the algorithm used by the MessageLoader

to search the accept language list to determine which message file to

open was changed. Before Pegasus 2.8, the Message Loader used the

following algorithm:

1.) The Message Loader will search the accept

language list for an exact match. The first exact match found will

be returned.

2.) If an exact match does not exist, the Message Loader will return

an ICU "fallback" match for the first entry in accept language list.

3.) If an ICU "fallback" match does not exist for the first entry,

it will return the ROOT resource bundle.

</blockquote>

With the release of Pegasus 2.8, the Message Loader no longer returns ICU "fallback" matches. In addition, it gives

preference to the default process locale over the ROOT resource bundle.

In Pegasus 2.8, the Message Loader was modified to use the

following algorithm:

<ul>

1.) The Message Loader will search the accept

language list for an exact match. The first exact match found will

be returned.

2.) If an exact match does not exist, the Message Loader will return

an exact match for the default process locale.

3.) If an exact match for the default process locale is not found,

it will return the ROOT resource bundle.

</ul>

</td>

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7501</a></td>

<td>

Since OpenPegasus 2.7.2 the way CMPI_chars are added to

arrays was corrected to follow the CMPI specification. Following the

CMPI specification means that CMPI_chars are not to be dereferenced,

contrary to all other subtypes of CMPIValues.

If you experience an error since switching over to OpenPegasus 2.8

saying "The byte sequence starting at offset xx is not valid UTF-8

encoding", this is an indication for a missing update in the provider

code.

The update for a C CMPI provider using arrays of CMPI_chars is to use a

char* now as input parameter instead of a char**.

CMPI Example:

char* role = "Unknown";

array = CMNewArray(_broker,1,CMPI_chars,rc);

from:

CMSetArrayElementAt(array,0,(CMPIValue*)&role,CMPI_chars);

to:

CMSetArrayElementAt(array,0,(CMPIValue*)role,CMPI_chars);</td>

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<h2>OpenPegasus Relationship to

CIM/WBEM Standards</h2>

Pegasus was designed and implemented to comply with the DMTF

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<td width="33%">DSP 0200 - CIM Operations over HTTP</td>

<td width="33%">1.2.0, preliminary, 9 December 2004</td>

<td width="33%">Version 1.2, Final, January 09, 2007</td>

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<td width="33%">DSP 0201 - Representation of CIM in XML</td>

<td width="33%">2.2.0, preliminary, December 2004</td>

<td width="33%">Version 2.2 Final, January 09, 2007</td>

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<td width="33%">DSP 0202 - CIM Query Language Specification</td>

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<td width="33%">CIM Schema </td>

<td width="33%">2.13.1 Final, Jan. 2005 ( default) </td>

<td width="33%">2.17.1 Final,  14 Dec 2007( default) </td>

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<li>Indications -Today Pegasus supports process

indications and lifecycle indications when defined specifically by

providers. Pegasus does not support lifecycle indications if they are

not defined by the provider or for changes to CIM Classes.<font

not defined by the provider or for changes to CIM Classes.  For

color="#ff0000">  For

more information see the Pegasus CVS file:<a name="comtag_137">

<font

pegasus/src/Unsupported/LifecycleIndicationProvider/README.LifecycleIndications.htm</a>.</li>

face="Courier New" size="2"> pegasus/src/Unsupported/LifecycleIndicationProvider/README.LifecycleIndications.htm</a>.</li>

<li>

<font

IncludeQualifiers

style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">IncludeQualifiers

option on Instance Operations

The DMTF specifications have deprecated the use of qualifiers on

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MOF Compiler namespace pragma - The

Pegasus compiler does not support the namespace pragma.

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<li>Pegasus implements

<li>CIMOperation Trailer - Pegasus implements

chunking

based on the DSP0200 1.2.0 preliminary spec. including the operation trailer

defined in that specification Refer to bug

<a href="http://cvs.opengroup.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6760">6760</a> for more details.

href="http://cvs.opengroup.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6760">6760</a> for more details.

This trailer was completely removed from the DSP0200 1.2 final specification

as a non-compatible change so that if chunking is used Pegasus is returning

a noncompliant response to enumerate type requests.

</li>

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<h2>OpenPegasus <a

<h2>OpenPegasus <a name="Supported Platforms">Supported

name="Supported Platforms">Supported

Platforms</a></h2>

Each OpenPegasus release lists as 'active' platforms those

Each OpenPegasus release lists as 'active' platforms those

hardware/software platforms that have recognized ports for the Pegasus

hardware/software platforms that have recognized ports for the Pegasus code base

code

including a maintainer for the platform that will be willing to regularly

base including a maintainer for the platform that will be willing to

document issues and/or fix defects as the Pegasus code base is changed. 

regularly document issues and/or fix defects as the Pegasus

Pegasus may be operable on other platforms (ex. Windows 98) but without a group

code base is changed. 

to provide the role of test and maintenance, correct operation of  Pegasus

Pegasus may be operable on other platforms (ex. Windows 98) but without

cannot be assured.  In all cases, including the active platforms, it is the

a group

responsibility of the entity that packages and/or compiles OpenPegasus for

to provide the role of test and maintenance, correct operation of 

shipment or deployment, to read, and actively monitor the Pegasus bugzilla

Pegasus cannot be

database for a list of relevant defects that affect their platform.  

assured.  In all cases, including the active platforms, it is the

The platforms that are considered ported are shown in the two tables below. 

responsibility of the entity that packages and/or compiles OpenPegasus

The first table represents platform sofr which testing is done on a regular

for shipment or deployment, to read, and actively monitor the Pegasus

basis and reported to the Pegasus Nightly Build Test WEB Page. Those platforms

bugzilla database for a list of relevant defects that affect their

which have been ported but do not have test results that are current at the time

platform.   The platforms that are considered 'active' for this

of the release are reported in the second table.Actively Supported Platforms (Nightly Tests Reported for this release)

Pegasus release are:

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HP <span

HP aC++ B3910B<o:p></o:p>

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<span

Linux on Power<o:p></o:p>

style="color: black;">Linux on Power<span

style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p>

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<span

gcc<o:p></o:p>

style="color: black;">gcc<o:p></o:p>

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zLinux<o:p></o:p>

style="color: black;">zLinux<o:p></o:p>

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gcc<o:p></o:p>

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gcc<o:p></o:p>

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Linux IA-32</td>

<span

gcc

style="color: black;">gcc

(versions 2.9x, 3.xx, 4.xx)<o:p></o:p></td>

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Linux X86_64<o:p></o:p>

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gcc

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(versions 2.9x, 3.xx, 4.xx)

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<td style="padding: 0.75pt; "> Windows XP, Windows 2003

<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Windows 2003

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Microsoft Visual C++ Ver. 6 and Microsoft .Net compiler Version 7.1.

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<td style="padding: 0.75pt; "> MacOS version 10.3 and higher</td>

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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><big>HP OpenVMS 8.3 or later Alpha</big></td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;"> <big><font

<td style="vertical-align: top;"> <big>HP C++ V7.3-009 or later required for OpenVMS

style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="RED">HP C++ V<span

style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">7.3-009 or later required for OpenVMS

Alpha</big></td>

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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><big><font

<td style="vertical-align: top;"><big> HP OpenVMS 8.3 or later IA64</big></td>

style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> HP OpenVMS 8.3 or later IA64</big></td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;"><big>HP C++ V7.3-023 or

<td style="vertical-align: top;"><big><font

later required on OpenVMS IA64</big></td>

style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">HP C++ V7.3-023 or

</tr>

later required<font

<tr>

style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> on OpenVMS IA64</big></td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;">XL C/C++ from z/OS Version

1.7 and up</td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

Platforms no Actively supported for this release (No

current Nightly Build Test Results

<tbody>

Platform and

OS<o:p></o:p>

</td>

Compilers<o:p></o:p>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td style="vertical-align: top;"><big><span

<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Windows XP

style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Solaris 8</big></td>

</td>

Microsoft Visual C++ Ver. 6 and Microsoft .Net compiler Version 7.1.

Note: Visual C++ Ver. 6 no longer being regular tested.

</td>

</tr>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> MacOS version 10.3 and higher</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td style="vertical-align: top;"><big>Solaris 8</big></td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;"><big>GNU  2.95.3,  Sun

CC compiler V 5.8. Note that the latest thread patch (108993) may be

required. (see Pegasus bug 4632)</big>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td style="vertical-align: top;"><big><font

<td style="vertical-align: top;"><big>Solaris 9</big></td>

color="RED">Solaris 9</big></td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;"><big>GNU  2.95.3, Sun

WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3, patch 111685-22 2005/04/09</big>

</td>

</tr>

</tr><tr><td><big>OpenSolaris 11 (Nevada) Community Edition (Sparc and IX86)</big></td><td><big>CC Compiler Sun Studio 5.11</big></td></tr>

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</table>

Platform patches

Platform patches

<font

The following is a list known of platform

style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The following is a list known of platform

patches Pegasus requires.

<ol>

<li>

<font

RHAS

style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">RHAS

2.1 needs the update to fix Red Hat Bugzilla 98815.</li>

<li>

RHEL 4.4 multithreading bug in

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Further information regarding Pegasus support on IBM platforms can

found at: <a

found at: <a href="http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r1/en_US/index.htm?info/icmain.htm">http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r1/en_US/index.htm?info/icmain.htm</a>

href="http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r1/en_US/index.htm?info/icmain.htm"><span

style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r1/en_US/index.htm?info/icmain.htm</a>

Further information regarding Pegasus support on HP platforms can

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the Pegasus CVS tree for that Pegasus release.

     - Changes for Pegasus 2.7.0 release (bugs Tagged

     - Changes for Pegasus 2.9.0 release (bugs Tagged

2.7.0_APPROVED) 

2.9.0_APPROVED). The link is <a href="http://cvs.rdg.opengroup.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?keywords=2.9.0_APPROVED">

<a href="http://cvs.rdg.opengroup.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?keywords=2.7.0_APPROVED">Pegasus 2.7.0_APPROVED bug list</a>

Pegasus 2.9.0_APPROVED bug list.</a>

<h2><a

<h2><a name="Pegasus Release Control and Version Definition Documentation">Release Control and Version Definition Documentation</a></h2>

name="Pegasus Release Control and Version Definition Documentation">Release Control and Version Definition Documentation</a></h2>

The Pegasus project is controlled largely through a set of documents

(PEPs) that serve both as the definition and review mechanism for new and

modified Pegasus functionality and for the definition and documentation

of releases.

of releases.The following PEPs define the characteristics of this

Specifically the following PEPs define the characteristics of this

Pegasus release. These PEPs are available at

OpenPegasus Approved PEPs.</a>

OpenPegasus Approved PEPs.</a><ol>

<ol>

<li>

No PEP (See Wiki Section <a href="http://wiki.opengroup.org/pegasus-wiki/doku.php?id=dev:release:2_9_x">OpenPegasus 2.9.x Release Status</a>) - OpenPegasus Release Definition/Status -  </li>A

<li>

section in the Pegasus wiki is used

PEP 296 - OpenPegasus Release Definition - This PEP is used

throughout the development of this version as the control point for

functionality that will go into the release and points to all of the PEPs that

represent the Pegasus  functionality changes for this version of Pegasus.</li>

represent the Pegasus  functionality changes for this version of Pegasus.

<li>

<a href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/uploads/40/14873/PEP292_RecommendedReleaseOptions.htm">PEP 292</a> -  OpenPegasus  Build and Configuration

PEP 343</a> -  OpenPegasus  Build and Configuration

Options  for Selected

Platforms</li>

Platforms - Also located in the OpenPegasus CVS repository as <big>pegasus/doc/BuildAndReleaseOptions.html</big>.</li>

<li>

<a href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/uploads/40/14874/PEP293_ExternalInterface2.7.htm">PEP 293</a> - OpenPegasus 2.7 External Interfaces - Lists the public

PEP 344</a> - OpenPegasus 2.8 External Interfaces - </li>Lists the public

interfaces for clients and providers that are considered external and

therefore "frozen".

</li>

<li>

<a href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/uploads/40/14875/PEP294_SDKFile2.7.0.htm">PEP 294</a> - OpenPegasus  SDK Packaging Definition - Defines the

recommended set of files for inclusion in the OpenPegasus SDK</li>

PEP 342</a> - OpenPegasus  SDK Packaging Definition - </li>Defines the

recommended set of files for inclusion in the OpenPegasus SDK

<li>

<a href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/uploads/40/14877/PEP295_RuntimePackaging2.7.0.htm">PEP 295</a> - Pegasus  Runtime Packaging Definition - Defines the

recommended set of files for inclusion in this OpenPegasus release.</li>

PEP 341</a> - Pegasus  Runtime Packaging Definition - </li>Defines the

recommended set of files for inclusion in this OpenPegasus release.

<li>PEP 306 - Pegasus Release Notes (This document located in the

<li>PEP 345 - Pegasus Release Notes -  (This document located in the

approved PEP

repository and the OpenPegasus source tree root directory)

repository and the OpenPegasus source tree root directory (<big>pegasus/ReleaseNotes.html</big>)

</li>

</ol>

</ol>

<h2><a name="General Documentation">General Documentation</a></h2>

<h2><a name="General Documentation">General Documentation</a></h2>

The following documentation is available for the this Pegasus

The following documentation is available for the this Pegasus

release:

release:

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Utilities - A

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Utilities - </li>A

combination of help generally available with the --help option for each

command and HTML documentation for most of the tools.<o:p></o:p></li>

command and HTML documentation for most of the tools.<o:p></o:p>

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">API and  usage

documentation - See the header files and the HTML  API

documentation - </li>See the header files and the HTML  API

documentation that is on the web site. The best API usage documentation

is the existing utilities and test programs and the examples in the API

documentation.  In particular the Common/tests unit tests contain

extensive examples of the use of the Common APIs.</li>

extensive examples of the use of the Common APIs.

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Building and Debugging

Providers - Readme.html in the Pegasus source tree Root Directory, API

Providers - </li>Readme.html in the Pegasus source tree Root Directory, API

documentation, and documentation from the Pegasus Technical Workshop

which is available on the Pegasus web site.</li>

which is available on the Pegasus web site.

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Building and Debugging

Clients - API documentation and the documentation on the Pegasus

Clients - </li>API documentation and the documentation on the Pegasus

Technical Workshop which is available on the Pegasus web site.</li>

Technical Workshop which is available on the Pegasus web site.

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">PEPs - The

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">PEPs - </li>The

features of Pegasus that have been installed in this and the previous

few versions are defined by Pegasus PEPs that are available on the

OpenPegasus web site.  While these are the original design

documents largely and use in the process of defining and approving the

overall characteristics of new functionality, they serve as a guide to

the design and implementation of these features.</li>

the design and implementation of these features.

</ul>

<hr>Licensed to The Open Group (TOG) under one or more contributor license

agreements. Refer to the OpenPegasusNOTICE.txt file distributed with

this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.

<span

Each contributor licenses this file to you under the OpenPegasus Open

style="color: black;">  <o:p></o:p>

Source License; you may not use this file except in compliance with the

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License.

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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a

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to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation

the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,

Corporation; Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.; IBM Corp.; The

and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the

Open Group; VERITAS Software Corporation; Intel Corp.

Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any

in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

person obtaining a copy  of this software and associated

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS

documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without

OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF

restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy,

MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY

the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished

CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,

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TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE

SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

THE ABOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICE AND THIS PERMISSION

NOTICE SHALL BE INCLUDED IN ALL COPIES OR SUBSTANTIAL PORTIONS OF THE

SOFTWARE. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED  "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF

ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE

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