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PEP #: 359

Title: Release

Notes for OpenPegasus version 2.11.0

Created: 23

March 2011

Authors: Karl

Schopmeyer

Status:  draft

Version History:

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<span

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Abstract: This document defines the release notes for the

2.11.0 release of the OpenPegasus CIM Server. The purpose of this PEP

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

Release</a></li>

<li><a href="#Functionality_of_This_Release">OpenPegasus

Functionality of This Release</a></li>

<li><a href="#Compatibility_Considerations_">Compatibility

Considerations</a></li>

<li><a href="#Relationship_to_CIMWBEM_Standards">Relationship

to CIM/WBEM Standards</a></li>

<li><a href="#Supported%20Platforms">OpenPegasus Supported Platforms</a></li>

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

with DMTF Specifications</a></li>

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

<li> <a

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>

</ol>

<h2>Availability

of this Release</h2>

This release is available in a number of forms including:

<ul>

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

These can be

downloaded from the OpenPegasus Web

site at <a

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

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

snapshots page</a>.</li>

</ul>

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

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

tree.

</div>

This is a place-holder for the 2.5 Release Notes which be added just before

<h2>OpenPegasus Functionality for This

the release.

Release</h2>

Earlier versions can be downloaded from CVS, or from among the Release PEPS

Pegasus overall status by release is defined by  a

<a href="http://www.openpegasus.org/page.tpl?ggid=799">Feature Status

here</a>.

WEB Page</a>

<span

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

style='color:black'>

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 2.11.0

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. Note that the bugs listed represent only those features

incorporated in bugs without PEPS that are considered enhancements, not

all bugs incorporated in the release. For

more information access the PEP/BUG for each change defined below:

<font

style="font-weight: bold;" size="4">    Table of Major

Changes for this Release

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<tbody>

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

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

Version</th>

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<tr>

<td>Run 32 bit providers in 64 bit OpenPegasus</td>

<td style="text-align: center;"><a

href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/uploads/40/23224/PEP_318_32bit_providers_in_64bit_OpenPegasusVer10.htm">1.0</a></td>

</tr>

<td align="left" width="75%">Provider Module Grouping</td>

<td width="128"> <a

href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/uploads/40/22030/PEP356_ProviderModuleGrouping.htm">2.2</a>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td align="left" width="75%">SNMP V3 Trap Generation in Pegasus

Indication Handler</td>

<td style="text-align: center;" width="128"><a

href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/uploads/40/23237/PEP_357_-_SNMP_v3_trap_generation_in_Pegasus_.htm">1.0</a></td>

</tr>

<td style="text-align: center;" width="7%">PEP 324

</td>

<td align="left" width="75%">DMTF Indications Profile (DSP 1054)

Implementation, stage 2

</td>

<td width="128"><a

href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/uploads/40/22529/PEP324-DMTF_Indications_Profile_stage2_Ver11.html">1.1</a></td>

</tr>

<td style="text-align: center;" width="7%">PEP 349

</td>

<td align="left" width="75%"><span

style="">Improve the

availability of the CIMOM by better isolation from faulty providers</td>

<td width="128"> <a

href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/uploads/40/22386/PEP_349_-_Improve_the_availability_of_the_CIMOM_by_better_isolation_from_faulty_providers.htm">0.5</a></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td style="text-align: center;"><a

href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8787">Bug 8787</a>

</td>

<td>Add External SLP support to release builds

</td>

<td style="text-align: center;"> <a

href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/uploads/40/21277/PEP350_MultiCIMOM.htm">

</a></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td style="text-align: center;"> <a

href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8800">Bug 8800

</a></td>

<td> <a name="comtag_90"></a>enable

PEGASUS_USE_RELEASE_CONFIG_OPTIONS build option to have true/false

values

</td>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td style="text-align: center;"><a

href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8806">Bug

8806</a></td>

<td>Diagnose data for BAD UTF8 exception</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8825">Bug

8825</a></td>

<td>Option to specify multiple provider dirs for release builds</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td style="text-align: center;"><a

href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8839">Bug

8839</a></td>

<td>OOP Provider recovery enhancement</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8845">Bug

8845</a></td>

<td><big><big>Enhance SSL Certificate info to

expose the whole certificate</big></big>

</td>

</tr>

<td style="text-align: center;" width="7%"> <a

href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8871">Bug 8871

</a> </td>

<td align="left" width="75%"><span

style="text-decoration: underline;">Enhance WSMan Server Adpater 

to include enumeration association filters</td>

</td>

</tr>

<td width="128"><a

href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8171">

</a></td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

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

release to this release</a> on the

<a href="http://www.openpegasus.org/page.tpl?ggid=799">Feature Status

WEB Page</a>.

Finally, a significant number of internal changes and corrections

were made

under the control of the Pegasus bugzilla bug system. See the bug

section below

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

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

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

some information on IPv6 support for the Linux and Windows platforms.

Note that in the 2.6.1 release there is no automatic run-time detection

of IPv6 support on a platform by OpenPegasus. If you build with

PEGASUS_ENABLE_IPV6=true, your platform must support IPv6 or you will

get a build failure (missing header files), a run-time bind() failure,

or possibly some other failure. This applies to both the CIM Server and

Listener components. For more information on IPv6 support for your

specific platform, refer to the documentation for that platform.

All OpenPegasus externals that

support either a hostname or an IP address as input have been updated

to allow an IPv6 address to be specified. If the required input is just

an IP address (eg. no optional or required port number), then the IPv6

address must be specified without brackets. For example, the

OpenPegasus osinfo client (which returns information about the OS

running on a host system) takes separate host and port options. In this

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

specified as:

<div

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

color="#000000">osinfo -h

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; font-family: monospace;"><big>cimcli ns

-l [3ffe:1:2:1]</big></div>

or

<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><big><span

style="font-family: monospace;">cimcli ns -l [3ffe:1:2:1]:5989</big>

</div>

For more information on

specifying

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

RFC 2373 - IP Version

6 Addressing Architecture</a>

and <a 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:

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.

To check whether your current

running

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

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

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

color="#000000">test -f

/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

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

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

bug 6586</a>

and

<a 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

that OpenPegasus with IPv6 enabled may be significantly impacted in

these

environments.

<h4>IPv6 on Windows</h4>

Microsoft provides supported IPv6

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 ipv6.exe

tool to install, uninstall, and

query

your IPv6 configuration. For example:

<div

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

color="#000000">ipv6 install

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.

Note that the OpenPegasus IPv6 support has not yet been tested

on Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008.

For more information on

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

the document

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

color="#000000">IPv6

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

<h4>Testing your OpenPegasus IPv6

support</h4>

As part of the OpenPegasus

automated tests, the TestClient, g11ntest, and IndicationStressTest

test clients were modified to run tests using the IPv6 loopback address

(::1) if PEGASUS_ENABLE_IPV6=true.

You can also perform manual

tests

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:

<big style="font-family: monospace;"> 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

Providers or Clients, using only the externally defined OpenPegasus

interface,

to continue to work with a minor version upgrade of OpenPegasus.

However, there

are certain classes of errors (e.g., non-compliance with a standard

that

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 this OpenPegasus release.

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<tbody>

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

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

</tr>

<td align="left">The requirement for providers (CMPI and C++) to

filter properties from instances has been relieved. The server will do

the filtering at the protocol adapter level. To avoid a negative impact

on performance the CIMInstance::filter() and

CMPIInstanceFT.setPropertyFilter() functions have been changed to a

NOP. This may be a change in behavior for provider relying in some

unknown way on the instance being filtered through these functions. To

allow users to actually filter properties from an instance, new

function CIMInstance::filterInstance() will actually filter properties

from an instance exactly as the CIMInstance::filter() did in previous

versions of Pegasus.</td>

</tr>

</tr>

</tr>

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<h2>OpenPegasus Relationship to

CIM/WBEM Standards</h2>

Pegasus was designed and implemented to comply with the DMTF

CIM/WBEM specifications The following table defines the level of the

DMTF specifications to which this version of Pegasus aims to conform

today.

<tbody>

<tr>

<td bgcolor="#00ffff" width="33%">DMTF Specification</td>

<td bgcolor="#00ffff" width="33%">Specification Version</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td width="33%">DSP 0004 - CIM Infrastructure Specification</td>

<td width="33%">Version 2.3 Final, 4 October 2005</td>

</tr>

<tr>

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

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

</tr>

<tr>

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

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

</tr>

<tr>

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

<td width="33%">1.0.0, preliminary, 9 December 2004</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td width="33%">DSP 0205 - WBEM Discovery using SLP</td>

<td width="33%">1.0, preliminary, 27 January 2004</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td width="33%">DSP 0206 - WBEM SLP Template</td>

<td width="33%">1.0.0, Preliminary, January 2004</td>

</tr>

<tr>

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

<td width="33%">2.22.1 Final,  22 Oct 2009( default) </td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

<h2><a name="Conformance with DMTF Specifications">Conformance

Exceptions to

DMTF Specifications</a></h2>

It is a major goal

of the OpenPegasus project to both drive and utilize the DMTF CIM/WBEM

specifications.  However, today there are a number of known

differences. 

As of this release, some of the differences include the following:

<ol>

<li>Provider Registration - Pegasus supports registration

through a set of Pegasus Provider registration classes rather than

support the DMTF defined Provider Qualifier. Pegasus will not support

this qualifier in the future. See the readme for more information on

provider registration.  This is not a deviation from the

specifications but is a different method of registration than many CIM

Servers and means that the the provider qualifier is unused in Pegasus.</li>

<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

color="#ff0000">  For

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

size="2">  pegasus/src/Unsupported/LifecycleIndicationProvider/README.LifecycleIndications.htm</a><font

size="2">.</li>

<li>

<font

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

option on Instance Operations

The DMTF specifications have deprecated the use of qualifiers on

instance operations with the 1.2 CIM Operations Specification and

stated specifically that the client should NOT depend on the

includeQualifiers parameter of the CIM/XML instance operations

returning qualifiers. 

Some CIM Client implementations expect instances

returned

from the CIM Server to include the qualifiers defined in the class

definition (such as KEY qualifiers on properties).   Pegasus

today expects the provider to complete the qualifiers on instances in

accordance with the specification and generally the interpretation is

that Pegasus applies class level qualifiers when the includeInstance

parameter is supplied on instance operations.  However, Pegasus

today is inconsistent in the return of qualifiers so that the user

should NOT depend on Pegasus accurately honoring the includeQualifier

parameter for instance operations.  In the future it is expected

that Pegasus will deprecate the use of qualifiers on instance

operations completely.  When Pegasus uses object normalization,

the normalizer does apply qualifiers to returned instances if the

includeQualifiers operation parameter is set.

</li>

<li>LocalOnly option on instance

Operations - With the 1.1 version of Specification for CIM

Operations over HTTP, the definition of the LocalOnly parameter for the

GetInstance and Enumerate Instances operations was modified. This

change

was incorrect, resulted in reduced functionality and introduced a

number of backward compatibility issues. As a result of issues

introduced by this change, we strongly recommend that CIM Clients set

LocalOnly = false and do not rely on the use of this parameter to

filter the set of set of properties returned. See Appendix C of this

specification for more information.</li>

<li>

MultiRequest Operations - Pegasus

does not support the DMTF defined MultiRequest Operation option.

</li>

<li>

MOF Compiler namespace pragma - The

Pegasus compiler does not support the namespace pragma.

</li>

<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. 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>

<li>Whitespace in XML value Element

- Pegasus trims the leading and trailing whitespace from XML value

elements that are of the Type String.  This behavior is documented

in Pegasus bug <a

href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8773">8773</a>

and there is a patch available for users.  However, since the

change is considered a change to behavior this will not be patched

until pegasus does a major version update. NOTE: There are some

documented bugs in Pegasus such as this that the OpenPegasus team feels

cannot be modified until a major version update.  These bugs are

documented with the Bugzilla tag <big style="font-weight: bold;"><samp>"3.0_TARGET".</samp></big></li>

<li>modifyInstance operation

behavior in the Pegasus repository does not match the DMTF specification.

Under some conditions (ex. if no propertyList is supplied) it modifies

all properties rather than just the properties supplied with the

request thereby Nulling out existing values. See bug <a

href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8752">8752</a>

for more information.</li>

</ol>

<h2>OpenPegasus <a

name="Supported Platforms">Supported

Platforms</a></h2>

Each OpenPegasus release lists as 'active' platforms

those

hardware/software platforms that have recognized ports for the Pegasus

code base

including a maintainer for the platform that will be willing to

regularly

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

changed. 

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

a group

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

Pegasus

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

it is the

responsibility of the entity that packages and/or compiles OpenPegasus

for

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

bugzilla

database for a list of relevant defects that affect their

platform.  

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

below. 

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

regular

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

platforms

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

the time

of the release are reported in the second table.

Actively Supported Platforms (Nightly Tests Reported for this

release)

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Platform and

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

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Compilers<span

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

</td>

</tr>

HP-UX<o:p>

PA_RISC and Itanium</o:p>

</td>

HP <span

class="SpellE">aC++ B3910B<o:p></o:p>

</td>

</tr>

<span

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

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

</td>

<span

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

</td>

</tr>

<span

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

</td>

<span

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

</td>

</tr>

Linux Itanium<o:p></o:p>

</td>

<span

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

</td>

</tr>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <font

size="3">Linux IA-32</td>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <span

style="color: black;">gcc<span

style="color: black;">

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

</tr>

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

</td>

<span

style="color: black;">gcc

(versions 3.xx, 4.xx)

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

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

z/OS Version 1.7 and up</td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

Platforms not Actively supported for this release

(No

current Nightly Build Test Results

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Platform and

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

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Compilers<span

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

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

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

</td>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 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><span

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

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>

<td><big>HP OpenVMS 8.3 or later Alpha</big></td>

<td><big>HP C++ V<span

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

OpenVMS

Alpha</big></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><big> HP OpenVMS 8.3 or

later IA64</big></td>

<td><big>HP C++ V7.<font

color="#993399">3-023 or later required<font

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

</tr>

<tr>

Windows 2000

</td>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Microsoft Visual

C++ Ver.  6 and Microsoft .Net compiler version. Works on VC

.NET 2003 v7.1). NOTE: Visual C++ Ver. 6 no longer being regularly

tested.</td>

</tr>

<tr>

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

</td>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Microsoft Visual

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

Ver. 6 no longer being regular tested. </td>

</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>

</tbody>

</table>

Platform patches

<font

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

patches Pegasus requires.

<ol>

<li>

<font

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

getpwuid-r could cause a CIM Server failure (Bugzilla 6232). This is

fixed in

RHEL 4.5

</li>

<li>

Red Hat and SUSE

Linux multiple versions -

multithreaded client intermittently fails connecting to IPv6 (Pegasus

Bugzilla

6586) (Red Hat bug 248052)

</li>

</ol>

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Further information regarding Pegasus support on IBM platforms can

found at: <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

found at:

<a href="http://www.hp.com/go/wbem">http://www.hp.com/go/wbem</a>.

<h2><a name="PEGASUS Bugs">Pegasus Defects</a></h2>

The Pegasus bugzilla database documents any defects found in Pegasus

and  is available through the following link:  <a

href="http://cvs.rdg.opengroup.org/bugzilla/">OpenPegasus bugzilla

database</a>.

Effective with the start of the Pegasus 2.6 work, all changes to the

CVS tree are documented through bugs.  Bugs reports are filed not

only for bugs and

their corresponding fixes but also as part of the process of committing

new code

representing the work on PEPs done for Pegasus 2.6 and all subsequent

versions.  Therefore, a search of

the Open Pegasus bugzilla base for bugs with the tag for a particular

version

(ex. 

href="http://cvs.rdg.opengroup.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?keywords=2.6.0_APPROVED">2.6.0_APPROVED</a>,

href="http://cvs.rdg.opengroup.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?keywords=2.6.1_APPROVED">

2.6.1_APPROVED</a>,

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

etc) will yield all changes to

the Pegasus CVS tree for that Pegasus release.

     - Changes for this release (bugs Tagged

2.11.0_APPROVED). The link is <a

href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=2.11.0_APPROVED">

Pegasus 2.11.0_APPROVED bug list.</a>

<h2><a

name="Pegasus Release Control and Version Definition Documentation">Release

Control and Version Definition Documentation</a></h2>

The Pegasus project is controlled largely through the CVS repository

and 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.

The following documentation defines the characteristics of this Pegasus

release. The documents are available in the OpenPegasus CVS

repository.

<ul>

<li> OpenPegasus Release Definition/Status -No PEP (See Wiki

Section <a

href="https://wiki.opengroup.org/pegasus-wiki/doku.php?id=dev:release:2_11_x">OpenPegasus

2.11.x Release Status</a>) - A

section in the Pegasus wiki 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>

OpenPegasus

Build and Configuration

Options  for Selected

Platforms -  In previous

versions of Pegasus this information was  released as a Pegasus

PEP. Starting with Pegasus 2.9.0 the information is located in the

OpenPegasus CVS repository as <big style="font-weight: bold;"> <span

style="font-family: monospace;">pegasus/doc/BuildAndReleaseOptions.html</big>.

<li> OpenPegasus External Interfaces -<span

style="font-weight: normal;">The list of the OpenPegasus interfaces

that are considered external and therefore "frozen". Unless an

exception is explicitly approved by the Steering Committee all

subsequent releases of Pegasus MUST continue to support these

interfaces. Interfaces not explicitly listed in this document, should

be considered as internal and subject to change.In previous Pegasus

releases this information was available as a separate PEP. Starting

with Pegasus 2.9.0 this information is integrated into the Pegasus

repositoryas  <font

face="Courier New" size="4">pegasus/doc/EnternalInterface.html<span

style="font-weight: normal;">.</li>

<li> OpenPegasus  SDK Packaging Definition - <span

style="font-weight: normal;">Defines the recommended set of files for

inclusion in the OpenPegasus

SDK. Starting with Pegasus release 2.11.0, this document is available

in the Pegasus CVS repository as <big style="font-weight: bold;"><samp>pegasus/doc/SDKPackaging.html</samp></big>.

previous Pegasus releases this document was made available as s

separate Pegasus PEP document rather than in the CVS repository.

</li>

<li> Pegasus  Runtime Packaging Definition

- Defines the recommended set

of files for inclusion in this OpenPegasus

release. Starting with Pegasus release 2.11.0, this idocument contained

in the CVS repository as <big style="font-weight: bold;"><samp>pegasus/doc/RuntimePackaging.html</samp></big>.

In previous

releases this was made available as a seperate Pegasus PEP document

rather than in the CVS repository.  </li>

<li>Pegasus Release Notes - <span

style="font-weight: normal;"> PEP 355 - <span

style="font-weight: normal;"> (This document is located in the

approved PEP repository and the OpenPegasus source tree root directory (<big

style="font-weight: bold;">pegasus/ReleaseNotes.htm</big>)</li>

</ul>

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

The following documentation is available for the this Pegasus

release:

<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

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

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

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

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 class="MsoNormal"

style="color: black;">Building and Debugging

Clients - </li>

API documentation and the documentation on the Pegasus

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

</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.

Each contributor licenses this file to you under the OpenPegasus Open

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

License.

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

obtaining a

copy of this software and associated documentation files (the

"Software"),

to deal in the Software without restriction, including without

limitation

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

sublicense,

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

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

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 WARRANTIES OF

MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

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

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

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

SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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