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 <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"              Proposal (PEP)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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 <b>PEP #:</b> 230<br>            <b>PEP #:</b> 364<br>
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 <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b>Title: </b>Release <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b>Title: </b>Release
 Notes for OpenPegasus 2.5</p>          Notes for OpenPegasus version 2.12.0</p>
 <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b>Version: </b>1.8</p>        <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b>Created:</b> 10
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  year="2004" day="23" month="3">1 April 2005</st1:date></p>        </p>
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 Grunbok, Karl Schopmeyer<br>          Schopmeyer<br>
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  style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"><o:p>Warren Grunbok<br>                    style="font-family: Arial;"><font size="2">Karl Schopmeyer</font></span></p>
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               <td style="padding: 0.75pt;" height="21" align="center">&nbsp;1.01</td>
               <td style="padding: 0.75pt;" height="21" align="center">10 September
                 2012 <br>
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               <td style="padding: 0.75pt;" height="21" align="center">Karl
                 Schopmeyer <br>
               </td>
               <td style="padding: 0.75pt;" height="21">&nbsp;Minor fixes and
                 complete links to PEPs<br>
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       <td style="padding: 0.75pt;" align="center">&nbsp;1.1</td>              <td style="padding: 0.75pt;" height="21" align="center">&nbsp;1.1</td>
       <td style="padding: 0.75pt;" align="center">26, June 2005&nbsp; <br>              <td style="padding: 0.75pt;" height="21" align="center">11 September
                 2012 <br>
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       <td style="padding: 0.75pt;">Warren Grunbok<br>              <td style="padding: 0.75pt;" height="21" align="center">Karl
                 Schopmeyer <br>
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       <td style="padding: 0.75pt;">revisions based on Comments&nbsp; <br>              <td style="padding: 0.75pt;" height="21">&nbsp;Incorporate all
                 comments from first review<br>
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       <td style="vertical-align: top;">1.2<br>              <td style="padding: 0.75pt;" height="21" align="center">&nbsp;1.2</td>
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       <td style="vertical-align: top;">Warren Grunbok<br>              <td style="padding: 0.75pt;" height="21" align="center">Karl
                 Schopmeyer <br>
       </td>       </td>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">fixed some broken links, added              <td style="padding: 0.75pt;" height="21">&nbsp;Fix comments on bug
 security notes. <br>                8830 (compatibility considerations) and bug 9172(repupgrade)<br>
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               <td style="padding: 0.75pt;" height="23" align="center">&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
               <td style="padding: 0.75pt;" height="23" align="center">&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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         <p><b>Abstract:</b> This document defines the release notes for the 2.12.0
           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.</p>
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         <h2 style="margin-bottom: 1px;"><b><o:p><font size="5">&nbsp;Contents</font></o:p></b></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><span style="color: black;">Availability of this Release</span></h2>
         <p>This release is available in a number of forms including:</p>
         <ul>
           <li><b>Source release</b> in both ZIP (and ZIP EXE) and TAR formats.
             These can be downloaded from the <span class="SpellE">OpenPegasus</span>
             Web site at <a href="http://www.openpegasus.org/page.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&amp;ggid=392">www.openpegasus.org.</a>&nbsp;</li>
           <li><b>OpenPegasus&nbsp;source RPMs</b> on the OpenPegasus web site.. A
             source RPM is&nbsp; 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><b>TheOpenPegasus CVS repository</b>. 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&amp;ggid=392">release
   snapshots
               page</a>.</li>
         </ul>
         <p>The instructions for acquiring the released code are on the <a href="http://www.openpegasus.org/page.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&amp;ggid=392">Pegasus
   WEB
             site</a>. Installation instructions are part of the README in the root
           of the Pegasus source tree.</p>
       </div>
       <div class="Section1">
         <h2><span style="color: black;">OpenPegasus Functionality for This Release</span></h2>
         OpenPegasus overall status by release is defined by&nbsp; a <a href="http://www.openpegasus.org/page.tpl?ggid=799">Feature
           Status WEB Page</a> that is available on the OpenPegasus web site
         .&nbsp; That web page shows the Pegasus users and developers the status of
         the various features found in OpenPegasus using a simple color coded key
         (white, red, yellow, green) and a description of each feature.
         <p>OpenPegasus 2.12.0 is a major release, extending the previous Pegasus
           release in selected areas as described in the Pegasus&nbsp; PEP defining
           this release . <br>
         </p>
         <p>NOTE: OpenPegasus releases are categorized as follows:</p>
         <ul>
           <li>First number of version changes (ex. 2.x.x to 3.0.0) -&nbsp; Major
             release includes major functionality change and&nbsp; incompatible
             behavior changes and/or incompatible public API changes, <br>
           </li>
           <li>Second number changes (ex 2.11.0 2.12.0) -&nbsp; Minor Release and
             includes new functionality but maintains behavior and public API
             compatibility, <br>
           </li>
           <li>3rd number changes (2.12.0 to 2.12.1) - Revision(also called point
             release) release and only includes bug fixes.</li>
         </ul>
         <p><u><b>ALL</b></u> changes for each release are documented in the
           OpenPegasus bug data base by tagging each bug(keyword field of
           bug).&nbsp; No change to Pegasus is committed with out this tag on the
           bug. Changes for this minor release are&nbsp; tagged 2.12.0_APPROVED.
           All changes for this minor release can be viewed through&nbsp; this link
           to the OpenPegasus bugzilla&nbsp;<a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=2.12.0_APPROVED">
             Pegasus 2.12.0_APPROVED bug list. Bugs.&nbsp; </a>Bugs marked as
           enhancements can be reviewed through the this <a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&amp;short_desc=&amp;product=CIM+Server+Core&amp;product=CIMClient+Application&amp;product=CIMClient+DefaultCPlusPlus&amp;product=CIMClient+Java-SNIA&amp;product=CIMConsumer+DefaultCPlusPlus&amp;product=CIMIndicationHandler&amp;product=CIMListener+Dynamic&amp;product=CIMListener+Standalone&amp;product=CIMProvider+CMPI&amp;product=CIMProvider+CMPIRemote&amp;product=CIMProvider+DefaultCPlusPlus&amp;product=CIMProvider+Instrumentation&amp;product=CIMProvider+JMPI&amp;product=CIMSchema&amp;product=CIMServer+Administration&amp;product=CIMServer+Administration+Command&amp;product=CIMServer+Administration+Profiles&amp;product=CIMServer+ProviderManagement&amp;product=CIMServer+Repository&amp;product=CIMServer+SLP&amp;product=OpenPegasus+Build+System&amp;product=OpenPegasus+Documentation&amp;product=OpenPegasus+Security+Defects&amp;product=OpenPegasusProject+Bugzilla&amp;product=OpenPegasusProject+CVS&amp;product=OpenPegasusProject+Website&amp;product=PegasusCIMOM&amp;product=PegasusGeneral&amp;product=RPM+CIMServer&amp;product=TestProduct&amp;product=Unsupported&amp;product=WMI+Mapper&amp;long_desc_type=substring&amp;long_desc=&amp;bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&amp;bug_file_loc=&amp;status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&amp;status_whiteboard=&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=2.12.0_APPROVED&amp;bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&amp;bug_status=NEW&amp;bug_status=ASSIGNED&amp;bug_status=REOPENED&amp;bug_status=RESOLVED&amp;bug_status=VERIFIED&amp;bug_status=CLOSED&amp;emailtype1=substring&amp;email1=&amp;emailassigned_to2=1&amp;emailreporter2=1&amp;emailqa_contact2=1&amp;emailcc2=1&amp;emailtype2=substring&amp;email2=&amp;bugidtype=include&amp;bug_id=&amp;chfieldfrom=&amp;chfieldto=Now&amp;chfield=[Bug+creation]&amp;chfieldvalue=&amp;cmdtype=doit&amp;order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&amp;field0-0-0=bug_severity&amp;type0-0-0=equals&amp;value0-0-0=enhancement">link
             to OpenPegasus bugzilla 2.12.0 enhancement bugs</a> .&nbsp; Bugs fixed
           for subsequent revision releases (ex. 2.12.1) would also be viewed
           through corresponding Bugzilla tags for each revisions (ex
           2.12.1_APPROVED).<br>
         </p>
         <p>The major areas of development including both enhancements and bug
           fixes for this release&nbsp; 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:</p>
         <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" align="left">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font
             style="font-weight: bold;" size="4">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Table of Major
             Changes for this Release</font></p>
         <table style="font-family: Arial;" bordercolordark="#666666" bordercolorlight="#CCCCCC"
           border="1" cellspacing="1" width="82%">
           <tbody>
             <tr align="center">
               <th bgcolor="#00ffff">PEP/BUG #</th>
               <th bgcolor="#00ffff">Description of Change</th>
               <th bgcolor="#00ffff" width="128">Posted PEP<br>
                 Version</th>
             </tr>
     <tr>     <tr>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">1.3<br>              <td align="left">PEP 360</td>
               <td>Provider Lifecycle Indications<br>
       </td>       </td>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">23, Aug 2005<br>              <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://collaboration.opengroup.org/pegasus/pp/documents/25003/PEP360_PLI_Ver1_2.html">Ver
                   1.2</a><br>
       </td>       </td>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">Warren Grunbok<br>            </tr>
             <tr align="center">
               <td align="left" width="7%">PEP 361</td>
               <td align="left" width="75%">cimcli support for embedded instances<br>
       </td>       </td>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">Revisions based on comments<br>              <td width="128"><a href="https://collaboration.opengroup.org/pegasus/pp/origrevdocuments/3195/PEP361_CIMCLIEmbeddedInstanceSupport.htm">Ver
                   1.1</a><br>
       </td>       </td>
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr>     <tr>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">1.4<br>              <td align="left" width="7%">PEP 304<br>
       </td>  
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">30.Aug 2005<br>  
       </td>       </td>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">Warren Grunbok<br>              <td align="left" width="75%">Allow modification of name of interop
                 namespace<br>
       </td>       </td>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">More revisions based on Aug 26              <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"></a><a
 review in Architecture meeting<br>                  href="https://collaboration.opengroup.org/pegasus/pp/documents/24686/PEP304_NamespaceRenaming.htm">Ver
                   1.5</a><br>
       </td>       </td>
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr>     <tr>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">1.5<br>              <td align="left">PEP 358<br>
       </td>       </td>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">12, Sept 2005<br>              <td>WSMan indication handling and subscription support<br>
       </td>       </td>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">Warren Grunbok<br>              <td align="center"><a href="https://collaboration.opengroup.org/pegasus/pp/documents/26240/PEP_358_-_WSMAN_Eventing_support_in_Pegasus_.htm">Ver
       </td>                  1.1</a><br>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">Minor comment updates from 1.4  
 version&nbsp; (balloted version)<br>  
       </td>       </td>
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr>     <tr>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">1.6<br>              <td><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8891">Bug
                   8891</a><br>
               </td>
               <td>Enhance cimsub to add operations to create filters, destinations
                 and subscriptions<br>
       </td>       </td>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">14,Sept 2005<br>              <td><br>
               </td>
             </tr>
             <tr align="center">
               <td style="text-align: center;" align="left" width="7%"><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5667">Bug
                   5667</a><br>
       </td>       </td>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">Warren Grunbok<br>              <td align="left" width="75%">Remove experimental form buildInstance
                 and filter functions in CIMInstance class<br>
       </td>       </td>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">additional comments from review<br>              <td width="128"><br>
       </td>       </td>
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr>     <tr>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">1.7<br>              <td><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8952">Bug
                   8952</a></td>
               <td> Support Configurable cipher suites in OpenPegasus</td>
               <td><br>
       </td>       </td>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">20, Sept 2005<br>            </tr>
             <tr>
               <td><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8904">Bug
                   8984</a></td>
               <td>Add support for indication deliver connection pooling</td>
               <td><br>
               </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
               <td><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9008">Bug
                   9008</a></td>
               <td>Add new Indication runtime configuration variables:
                 maxIndicaitonDeliveryRetry Attempts&nbsp; and
                 minIndicationdeliveryRetryInterval</td>
               <td><br>
               </td>
             </tr>
             <tr align="center">
               <td style="text-align: center;" align="left" width="7%"><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9013">Bug
                   9013</a><br>
       </td>       </td>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">Warren Grunbok<br>              <td align="left" width="75%"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span
                     style=""></span></span>Enable ordered indication delivery from
                 provider through CIMServer when
                 PEGASUS_ENABLE_DMTF_INDICATION_PROFILE compile flag is set</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"></a><br>
       </td>       </td>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">Added Solaris back in, corrected            </tr>
 Provider security statement, and clarified Solaris support for 2.5<br>            <tr>
               <td style="text-align: center;" align="left"> <a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8800">Bug
                   9080 </a></td>
               <td> <span class="norm"></span>Guaranteed provider lifecycle
                 indication delivery during CIMServer shutdonw </td>
               <td style="text-align: center;"><br>
       </td>       </td>
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr>     <tr>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">1.8<br>              <td><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9112">Bug
                   9112</a><br>
       </td>       </td>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">21, Sept 2005<br>              <td>Advertise IndicationService conformance to Indications Profileby
                 imlementing CIM_ElementConformsToProfile when
                 PEGASUS_ENABLE_DMTF_INDICATION_PROFILE_SUPPORT defined </td>
               <td><br>
       </td>       </td>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">Warren Grunbok<br>            </tr>
             <tr>
               <td><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9114">Bug
                   9114</a><br>
       </td>       </td>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">Clarified SLP enablement              <td>Advertise DMTF Indications Profile (DSP1054) 1.1.0 conformance </td>
 Paragraph and correction of Power on Linux in platform table<br>              <td><br>
       </td>       </td>
     </tr>     </tr>
   </tbody>  
 </table>  
 <p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>  
 <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span  
  style="color: black;">  
 <hr align="center" color="#009900" noshade="noshade" size="2"  
  width="100%"></span></div>  
 <p><b>Abstract:</b> This document defines the release notes for the 2.5  
 version of the Pegasus CIM Server. <span class="norm1"><span  
  style="font-size: 9pt;"><a  
  href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/protected/doc_edit.tpl?grid=632&amp;file=Pegasus2_3_1ReleaseNotes.html&amp;tag=35"  
  target="_self"><br>  
 </a></span></span></p>  
 <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span  
  style="color: black;">  
 <hr align="center" color="#009900" noshade="noshade" size="2"  
  width="100%"></span></div>  
 <p><b><o:p><font size="4">&nbsp;Contents<br>  
 </font></o:p></b></p>  
 <ol>  
   <li><a href="#Availability_of_this_Release_">Availability of  
 this Release</a></li>  
   <li><a href="#Functionality_of_This_Release">Functionality of  
 This Release</a></li>  
   <li><a href="#Relationship_to_CIMWBEM_Standards">Relationship  
 to CIM/WBEM Standards</a></li>  
   <li><a href="#Supported%20Platforms">Supported  
 Platforms</a></li>  
   <li><a href="#Conformance%20with%20DMTF%20Specifications">Conformance  
 with DMTF Specifications</a></li>  
   <li><a href="#Changes%20in%20This%20Release">Changes  
 in This Release</a></li>  
   <li><a href="#PEGASUS%20Bugs">PEGASUS  
 Bugs</a></li>  
   <li> <a  
  href="#Pegasus%20Release%20Control%20and%20Version%20Definition%20Documentation">Pegasus  
 Release Control and Version Definition Documentation</a></li>  
   <li><a href="#General%20Documentation">General  
 Documentation</a></li>  
 </ol>  
 <h2><a name="Availability_of_this_Release_"></a><span  
  style="color: black;"><a name="Availability_of_this_Release"></a>Availability  
 of this Release</span></h2>  
 <p>This release is available in a number of forms including:</p>  
 <ul>  
   <li>Source release in both ZIP and TAR formats. These can be  
 downloaded from the <span class="SpellE">OpenPegasus</span> Web  
 site at <a  
  href="http://www.openpegasus.org/page.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&amp;ggid=392">www.openpegasus.org.</a></li>  
   <li>OpenPegasus 2.5 binaries are available for Red Hat Enterprise  
 Linux 3.0 and 4.2 and SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9.0. A Source RPM is  
 also available that can be used to build binaries for most  
 LSB-compliant RPM-based Linux distributions and versions.</li>  
   <li>The Pegasus CVS. 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&amp;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&amp;ggid=392">Pegasus  
 WEB site</a>.  
 Installation instructions are part of the README in the root of the  
 Pegasus source  
 tree.<br>  
 <br>  
 <span class="norm">Instructions for building the Linux RPMs: <span  
  style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span><br>  
 </span></>  
 <ol>  
   <li><span class="norm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Download</span>  
 tog-pegasus-2.5.0-1.src.rpm. </span></li>  
   <li><span class="norm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">rpm</span>  
 -ih tog-pegasus-2.5.0-1.src.rpm </span></li>  
   <li>  
     <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-weight: bold;"><span  
  class="norm">Build  
 the rpms:</span></p>  
   </li>  
 </ol>  
 <span class="norm"></span>  
 <table  
  style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left; width: 712px; height: 116px;"  
  border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">  
   <tbody>  
     <tr>     <tr>
       <td              <td><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9118">Bug
  style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Distro</td>                  9118</a><br>
       <td              </td>
  style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Command<br>              <td>Add support for CIM_IndicationFilter.SourceNamespaces[] property<br>
               </td>
               <td><br>
       </td>       </td>
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr>     <tr>
       <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">RHEL3<br>              <td><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9136">Bug
                   9136</a></td>
               <td>Runtime configuration option to restrict cimserver to listen on
                 selected network interfaces</td>
               <td><br>
       </td>       </td>
       <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"><span  
  class="norm">rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/tog-pegasus-  
 2.5.0-1.spec</span></td>  
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr>     <tr>
       <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">RHEL4<br>              <td><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9155">Bug
                   9155</a><br>
               </td>
               <td>Update to include CIM 2.31 Schema and set this as default schema<br>
               </td>
               <td><br>
       </td>       </td>
       <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"><span  
  class="norm">rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/tog-pegasus-  
 2.5.0-1.spec</span></td>  
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr>     <tr>
       <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">SLES 9 <br>              <td><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9159">Bug
                   9159</a></td>
               <td>
                 <table style="font-family: Arial;" bordercolordark="#666666" bordercolorlight="#CCCCCC"
                   border="1" cellspacing="1" width="82%">
                   <tbody>
                     <tr>
                       <td>Add SSL Support to Dynamic Listener<br>
       </td>       </td>
       <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"><span  
  class="norm"> rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/packages/SPECS/tog-pegasus-  
 2.5.0-1.spe</span></td>  
     </tr>     </tr>
   </tbody>   </tbody>
 </table> </table>
 <span class="norm"></span>              </td>
 <ol start="4">              <td><br>
   <span class="norm"><br>              </td>
   </span><li style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="norm">After            </tr>
 the build the rpms will be in the  
 following locations:</span></li>  
 &nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="norm"></span>  
   <table style="width: 100%; text-align: left;" border="1"  
  cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">  
     <tbody>  
       <tr>       <tr>
         <td              <td><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9172">Bug
  style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Distro<br>                  9172</a><br>
               </td>
               <td>Add capability for administrator to override hostname used by
                 providers. This adds&nbsp; new runtime configuration variable
                 hostname and fullyQualifiedHostName. It is necessary to upgrade
                 existing repositories using repupgrade utility when upgrading from
                 OpenPegasus less that 2.12.0 and reusing an existing repository.<br>
         </td>         </td>
         <td              <td><br>
  style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Location  
 of RPMs after the build is complete<br>  
         </td>         </td>
       </tr>       </tr>
       <tr>       <tr>
         <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">RHEL3<br>              <td><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9215">Bug
                   9215</a><br>
               </td>
               <td>Add support of CQL query language to ExecQuery operation in
                 general. When the server receives&nbsp; ExecQuery it executes
                 enumerate instance for providers that do not support ExecQuery and
                 filters result.<br>
               </td>
               <td><br>
         </td>         </td>
         <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"><span  
  class="norm">/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/[arch]/tog-pegasus-  
 2.5.0-1.[arch].rpm  
 /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/[arch]/tog-pegasus-sdk- 2.5.0-1.[arch].rpm.<span  
  style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"></span><span  
  style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"></span></span><span  
  class="norm"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></td>  
       </tr>       </tr>
       <tr>       <tr>
         <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">RHEL4<br>              <td><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9209">Bug
                   9209 </a><br>
               </td>
               <td>Add operations for display class tree and counting instances to
                 cimcli<br>
               </td>
               <td><br>
         </td>         </td>
         <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"><span  
  class="norm">/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/[arch]/tog-pegasus-  
 2.5.0-1.[arch].rpm  
 /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/[arch]/tog-pegasus-sdk- 2.5.0-1.[arch].rpm.</span></td>  
       </tr>       </tr>
       <tr>       <tr>
         <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">SLES9<br>              <td><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9227">Bug
                   9227</a><br>
               </td>
               <td>Enhance cimsub for batches of subscription oriented operations<br>
               </td>
               <td><br>
               </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
               <td><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9229">Bug
                   9229</a><br>
               </td>
               <td><a name="comtag_197">Add gcc build support on hp-ux for the
                   Common, Client and General libraries.</a></td>
               <td><br>
               </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
               <td><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9236">Bug
                   9236</a></td>
               <td>Support for clang/clang++ compiler on Linux. This version
                 supports only X86 and X86_64 and requires clang version 3 or
                 greater.<br>
               </td>
               <td><br>
         </td>         </td>
         <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"><span  
  class="norm">/usr/src/packages/RPMS/[arch]/tog-pegasus-  
 2.5.0-1.[arch].rpm  
 /usr/src/packages/RPMS/[arch]/tog-pegasus-sdk- 2.5.01-.[arch].rpm.</span></td>  
       </tr>       </tr>
     </tbody>     </tbody>
   </table>   </table>
   <span class="norm"></span><span class="norm"></span>        <p>The status of several components of Pegasus functionality change status
 </ol>          between Pegasus versions. <span class="norm"><a name="comtag_116">Features
 <span class="norm">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  that
 &nbsp; </span><span class="norm"></span>  have
 <h2><a name="Functionality_of_This_Release"></a><span              changed status can be identified by a change in color from the
  style="color: black;">Functionality of This Release</span></h2>              previous release to this release</a></span> on the <a href="http://www.openpegasus.org/page.tpl?ggid=799">Feature
 New for the Pegasus 2.5 release is a Feature Maturity Dashboard.&nbsp;            Status WEB Page</a>.</p>
 This document shows the Pegasus users and developers the maturity of        <h3><b>Information on Interop namespace name (root/PG_InterOp) for
 the various features found in Pegasus using a simple color coded            OpenPegasus 2.12<br>
 key.&nbsp; That document can be found here:&nbsp; <a          </b></h3>
  href="http://www.openpegasus.org/page.tpl?ggid=799">Feature        <p>Prior to version 2.12 OpenPegasus used an OpenPegasus internal variable
 Maturity Link</a><br>          to define "root/PG_InterOp" as the name for the OpenPegasus namespace
 <span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><br>          with no defined way to change this variable.&nbsp; Note that an
 </span>The overall level of functionality in the Pegasus environment          unsupported method involving editing one file and rebuilding OpenPegasus
 effective with          was defined as a workaround in the <a href="%20https://wiki.opengroup.org/pegasus-wiki/doku.php?id=faq:openpegasus_build_and_installing">OpenPegasus
 this release is as follows:            wiki faq</a>s.&nbsp; <br>
 <h3><b>CIM Server Functionality</b></h3>  
 <p>The following paragraphs list the functions in this release.&nbsp;  
 All functions are considered community tested and operational unless  
 specifically noted below. Features that are marked alpha or beta are  
 not generally of the quality or completeness for production  
 usage.&nbsp;&nbsp;Interfaces that are part of the Pegasus public  
 interface definitions but that the Pegasus team feels may change are  
 marked experimental. In many cases these features&nbsp; and interfaces  
 are conditionally compiled with special environment variables. <a  
  href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/protected/doc.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&amp;gdid=8502"><span  
  style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span  
  style="text-decoration: underline;">PEP 200</span>&nbsp;</span></span></a>  
 provides more detailed information on how to enable  
 functionality that is conditionally compiled in this release.</p>  
 <blockquote>  
   <h4><b>CIM Operations over HTTP support</b></h4>  
   <ol>  
     <li>Class Operations (<span class="SpellE">getClass</span>, <span  
  class="SpellE">deleteClass</span>, <span class="SpellE">modifyClass</span>,  
       <span class="SpellE">enumerateClass</span>, <span class="SpellE">enumerateClassNames</span>)</li>  
     <li>Qualifier Operations (getQualifier, setQualifier,  
 deleteQualifier) </li>  
     <li>Instance Operations (<span class="SpellE">getInstance</span>, <span  
  class="SpellE">deleteInstance</span>, <span class="SpellE">modifyInstance</span>,  
       <span class="SpellE">enumerateInstance</span>, <span  
  class="SpellE">enumerateInstanceNames</span>, <span class="SpellE">getProperty</span>,  
       <span class="SpellE">setProperty</span>)</li>  
     <li>Association Operations (references, <span class="SpellE">referencenames</span>,  
       <span class="SpellE">associators</span>, <span class="SpellE">associatornames)</span></li>  
     <li>Methods Operations (invokeMethod)</li>  
     <li>Query operation - Support for ExecQuery was added in 2.4 with  
 WQL as query language and is defined in PEP 119. This feature is  
 considered at alpha quality because it has only been contributor  
 tested.&nbsp; Additional tests have been added in 2.5 for ExecQuery.<br>  
     </li>  
   </ol>  
 </blockquote>  
 </div>  
 <blockquote>  
   <h4><b>Indications</b></h4>  
   <ul>  
     <li>Process indications - Process indications are operational in  
 the  
 Server.&nbsp; This includes support  
 for subscriptions, filters, and indication handlers, the provider API  
 for  
 indications and the CIMXML indication handler.</li>  
     <li>Lifecycle indications - With the support for embedded objects,  
 lifecycle indications (ie. those  
 classes of indications derived from CIM_ClassIndication and  
 CIM_InstIndication) can now be created. Pegasus 2.5 provides some  
 enablement for the generation of lifecycle indications. For more  
 details, refer to  
 &lt;src/Unsupported/LifecycleIndicationProvider/readme.LifecycleIndications.htm&gt;.</li>  
   </ul>  
   <h4><b>Indication Listener</b></h4>  
   <p class="MsoNormal">The generic components for a CIM Listener and a  
 listener API are operational.&nbsp; This includes the functions for  
 HTTP, XML indication input and response, and consumers of indications.  
 This code can be used to define a separate listener package and is used  
 as an indication listener in the Pegasus server. <br>  
   </p>   </p>
   <p class="MsoNormal"><br>        <p>However, since the definition of a standard name for this namespace in
   <font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#330099">Pegasus 2.5          DMTF and SNIA specifications ("interop" or "root/interop" with "interop"
 includes a new standalone listener that is separate          being the preferred alternative) the use of&nbsp; "root/PG_InterOp" has
 from the current standalone CIMListener and the ExportServer listener          become an issue.<br>
 in the CIM server.  
 The use model that this listener fits is the following:  
   <ul>  
     <li><span class="norm"></span>&nbsp;The listener may be packaged as  
 part of the CIMOM or it may be packaged independently as part of  
 another application. </li>  
     <li><span class="norm"></span>&nbsp;Consumers  
 are developed independently of the listener and may be shipped with the  
 listener or added to an installed listener at a future time. </li>  
   </ul>  
   </font> </p>  
   <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="norm"></span><span  
  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">&nbsp;</span><font color="#330099"><span  
  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This  
 new "Dynamic Listener" provides a solution for the above use model. It  
 is essentially a lightweight, pluggable listener that  
 provides a small set of management features. The DynamicListener can be  
 run inside a daemon or a service. It is easily configurable and  
 bypasses traditional registration procedures.&nbsp; See <a  
  href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/protected/upreviews/20/1303/PEP195_CIMListenerEnhancementsv1_6.htm"><span  
  style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); text-decoration: underline;">PEP 195</span></a>&nbsp;<span  
  style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span>for  
 details.</span> </font></p>  
   <h4>Object Normalization</h4>  
 The Object Normalizer is an entity introduced in Pegasus 2.4 that  
 ensures  
 objects delivered from providers are complete and accurate. Two major  
 issues were identified with the initial implementation: 1) the Object  
 Normalizer drops instances it considers bad, and 2) the Object  
 Normalizer code slows performance. These issues are now addressed by  
 moving the Object Normalizer from the Dispatcher to the Response  
 Handler (or equivalent) and optimizing the existing implementation. The  
 move allows errors to be reported to the provider at the point of  
 delivery and ensures that only a single copy is made to preserve the  
 CIMOM/provider boundary.<br>  
 Two new configuration properties were added to control object  
 normalization.<br>  
   <ol>  
     <li>enableNormalization (true|false) - Enables or disables object  
 normalization for provider objects.</li>  
     <li>excludeModulesFromNormalization (colon delimited list of  
 provider modules) - List the provider modules by name (as specified in  
 PG_ProviderModule.Name) to exclude from normalization. Keep in mind  
 that all objects managed by all providers will be excluded from  
 normalization if its module name appears in this list.<br>  
     </li>  
   </ol>  
   <br>  
   <h4>Embedded Object support</h4>  
 Pegasus 2.5 now provides embedded object support. The proposed solution  
 is restricted to the following:<br>  
 The only representation for embedded objects supported by this  
 PEP is CIM-XML. <br>  
 CIMObject is implemented as a new CIMValue type. This type will be used  
 internally to represent embedded objects. When externalized (via  
 CIM-XML) these objects will be converted to strings representing valid  
 INSTANCE or CLASS elements, in accordance with the CIM Infrastructure  
 Specification.&nbsp; Embedded instances will also carry the  
 EmbeddedObject attribute with  
 the value "object", as specified by CR Interop-00217.001. <br>  
   <br>  
   <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>  
 </blockquote>  
 <div class="Section1">  
 <blockquote>  
   <h4><b>Query Language</b></h4>  
   <p>The query language today is based on WQL and is implemented and  
 used for filters and in 2.4 for execQuery.&nbsp; <br>  
   </p>   </p>
   <p>CQL Stage 1 has been included for Pegasus 2.5.&nbsp; PEPs 138,        <p>Effective OpenPegasus 2.12.0 a new build variable has been
 193, 205 combine to describe the function submitted.<br>          defined&nbsp; (PEGASUS_INTEROP_NAMESPACE) which allows an OpenPegasus
           builder to define an alternate name for the Interop namespace to either
           "interop" or "root/interop" (ex. PEGASUS_INTEROP_NAMESPACE =
           interop).&nbsp; Once this build variable is defined and OpenPegasus
           compiled, the actual name of the interop namespace is what was defined
           in this varaible and all components of OpenPegasus use this as the
           interop namespace name include the complete OpenPegasus test
           suite.&nbsp; The only name for the interop namespace will be the name
           defined through this build variable.<br>
   </p>   </p>
   <h4><b>Schema Repository</b></h4>        <p>However, today OpenPegasus is committed to the single namespace defined
   <span class="norm"></span>By default, Pegasus uses an XML-based          at build "(root/PG_InterOp", "interop", or "root/interop"). However, a
 schema repository. A binary encoding option is also available.<span          number of OpenPegasus&nbsp; installations are committed to the
  style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><br>          "root/PG_InterOp" name and must maintain their repositories through
   <br>          updates of OpenPegasus. While we are working on this issue today (which
   </span>To use the binary encoding feature a new configuration          means that a running version of OpenPegasus must accept both the and new
 properties was          names and not confuse clients, listeners or providers that would use
 added:<br>          either name) the OpenPegasus team did not complete that work for this
   <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; enableBinaryRepository (true|false) - Enables          release. See bug <a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9250">9250</a>
 or          for more information about possible solutions and our progress on a
 disables binary repository.<br>          solution.<br>
   </p>   </p>
   <div style="margin-left: 40px;">&nbsp;In addition to the binary        <p>NOTE: If you redefine the interop namespace name with
 repository, the compressed repository          PEGASUS_INTEROP_NAMESPACE clients using the "root/PG_InterOp" namespace
 functionality has          will not connect with the updated version of OpenPegasus. <br>
 been added as a build time conditional compile. It defaults to not  
 support  
 compression. When enabled the zlib library, used for the compression  
 algorithims, must be installed on the build and target systems. With  
 compression enabled records are always written compressed but both  
 compressed  
 and non-compressed records can be read allowing an easy migration path.<br>  
   <br>  
   <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Note:&nbsp; </span><span  
  class="norm"></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Note:  
 Users may experience an incompatibility moving a binary repository from  
 Pegasus 2.4 to 2.5. In Pegasus 2.5, measures have been taken to improve  
 the ability to maintain compatibility with subsequent releases. (See  
 bugzilla 3642 for details.)</span><font><font color="RED"> </font></font><span  
  style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">See bugzilla 3642 for details.<br>  
   </span></div>  
   <h4><b><b>Compressed Repository</b></b></h4>  
   <div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span class="norm"></span><font  
  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="RED">A compressed repository  
 feature has been added for  
 pegasus 2.5 that compresses the repository written to disk. This allows  
 the  
 repository to be as much as 50% smaller on disk. It uses an external  
 compression library (zlib) and has been tested with zlib 1.2.2. This  
 feature is  
 documented in PEP 214 and also in a Readme  
 (readme.compressed_repository). It is  
 considered experimental today because it is not in the automated tests.  
 Note  
 that the tests for this feature are in the test suite but not  
 activiated for  
 automatic tests.</font><br>  
   <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br>  
   </span><font><font color="RED"> </font></font></div>  
   <p> </p>  
   <h4><b>Instance Repository</b></h4>  
   <p><span class="norm"></span><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The  
 Pegasus schema repository may also be configured to hold instance  
 data.&nbsp; </font><span class="norm"></span><font  
  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Although instances may be place in the  
 repository  
 it was </font><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">not designed as a  
 high volume data store</font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. </span><br>  
   <br>  
   </p>   </p>
   <h4><b><b>Security Considerations<br>        <h3><font color="#000000"></font></h3>
   </b></b></h4>        <h3><font color="#000000">Information on&nbsp; IPv6 Support (PEP 291)</font></h3>
   <font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="RED">OpenPegasus 2.5 (and        <p><b>NOTE:</b> This functionality was incorporated in OpenPegasus 2.7.0
 prior) contains several mechanisms to perform authorization, but none          but it was felt that the information below was worth repeating in
 of these authorization checks are performed by default.          subsequent Release Notes</p>
 By registering any provider which fails to do appropriate authorization        <p style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"><font color="#000000">IPv6 is short
 checks, the consequences may include information leakage, data            for "Internet Protocol Version 6". IPv6 is the "next generation"
 corruption, or unintended elevation of privilege. Please ensure that            protocol designed by the IETF to replace the current version Internet
 one of the following mechanisms is used to ensure appropriate access to            Protocol, IP Version 4 ("IPv4"). IPv6 Support for OpenPegasus is
 your systems and data:<br>            documented in </font> <a href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/uploads/40/14222/PEP_291_IPv6.html">
 1. Only install/register providers which perform authorization            <font color="#3333ff">PEP 291</font></a><font color="#000000">.</font></p>
 appropriate for your environment.<br>        <p>The IPv6 support in OpenPegasus is controlled by the
   </font>          PEGASUS_ENABLE_IPV6 build variable. The default for this variable is
   <div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"          "true"; setting this to 'false' before building OpenPegasus will disable
  color="RED">a. For providers, this may include registering to          the IPv6 support.<br>
 'Run-as-requestor' (not available prior to Pegasus 2.5) and/or  
 performing authorization checks within the provider.<br>  
 b. For administrators, ensure that the providers you have registered in  
 your environment have performed sufficient authorization checks. Also,  
 monitor announcements of security defects in those providers and follow  
 the recommendations in those announcements as soon as possible. <br>  
 c. For distributors of Pegasus or providers, ensure that the providers  
 you are shipping have performed appropriate authorization checks, and  
 relay announcements of discovered security defects to your users.</font><br>  
   </div>  
   <font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="RED">2. Restrict users with  
 access to Pegasus to a specific authorized user group of trusted  
 individuals.<br>  
 3. Namespace authorization is also available.<br>  
   <br>  
   </font><span class="norm">For administration issues please refer to  
 the SSL Admin Guide found at: &nbsp; </span>pegasus/doc/PegasusSSLGuidelines.htm<br>  
   <h4><b>Server Security</b></h4>  
   <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1">  
     <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Basic Authentication  
 (Note that Digest based security is not implemented)</li>  
     <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">PAM authentication <o:p></o:p></li>  
     <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">SSL support - SSL is  
 implemented in Pegasus using the <span class="SpellE">OpenSSL</span>  
 libraries. Pegasus does not provide the <span class="SpellE">OpenSSL</span>  
 libraries but SSL can be used on any platform supported by <span  
  class="SpellE">OpenSSL</span>.&nbsp; Minimum level known to work  
 is&nbsp; 0.9.6c .&nbsp;&nbsp; This release of Pegasus was tested with  
 0.9.6k.&nbsp; See <a  
  href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/uploads/40/Application%20Data/Microsoft/Word/www.openssl.org">openssl.org</a>  
 for <span class="SpellE">OpenSSL</span> release information<o:p>.</o:p></li>  
     <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">SSL levels<br>  
       <span class="norm"></span><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">SSLv3  
 and TLSv1 by default. SSLv2 is  
 disabled by default and only enabled by a compile time option</font>.&nbsp;  
 See<a  
  href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/protected/doc.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&amp;gdid=8502">  
 PEP 200</a> for details on  
 configuration.<br>  
     </li>  
   </ol>  
   <b> </b>  
   <h4><b>Client Security</b><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><span  
  style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span></h4>  
 Certificate management&nbsp;  
 and User-based certificate authentication . A new control provider and  
 CLI for certificate management tasks. It expands upon the existing SSL  
 client verification support by providing a robust solution to managing  
 client certificates and certificate revocation lists via standard CIM  
 operations. It allows certificates to be associated with particular  
 system users for enhanced authorization capabilities.<br>  
   <span class="norm"></span><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">CN/ Host  
 name checks are not performed as a function of SSL or client libraries  
 and are the responsibility of the client to implement on their  
 own.&nbsp; See the SSL guide found in the /pegasus/doc directory for  
 more details on client security.</font><br>  
 Note: <span class="norm"><font><font color="RED"><span  
  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">WBEM clients are responsible for SSL  
 certificate verification using Pegasus and/or SSL libraries as  
 appropriate. Consequences of not doing so include leakage of  
 authentication credentials to unauthorized parties.</span> </font></font></span>  
   <h4><b>Platform Management Functions</b></h4>  
   <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1">  
     <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Configuration through  
 the defined configuration parameters (cimconfig) and server command  
 line options.<span class="norm"></span><font  
  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="RED">&nbsp; NOTE: When installed  
 as a service on Windows, setting the run-time config option  
 enableAuthentication to true can result in improper operation of the  
 SLP  
 provider and other providers. In order to circumvent this defect, an  
 Administrator should change the user that the service runs under from  
 the Local  
 System user to a local, privileged user (e.g. Administrator).  
 See bugzilla 4142 for details.</font> <o:p></o:p></li>  
     <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Daemon/service  
 operation of the Pegasus CIM Server on all supported platforms<o:p>  
 with the exception of HP OpenVMS.<br>  
       </o:p></li>  
     <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Operation statistics  
 capture using the <span class="norm"></span><font  
  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">CIM_StatisticalData </font>classes in  
 the DMTF Interop model. This  
 function is considered alpha quality and conditionally compiled. <br>  
     </li>  
     <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Multiple  
 pluggable provider managers.&nbsp; Provider managers are provided for  
 the Pegasus C++ provider interface, the CMPI C provider interface and  
 an alpha quality Java provider interface (JMPI).</li>  
     <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Platform Globalization  
 - Pegasus includes support for unicode data transfers and includes a  
 mechanism for message support in multiple languages using the open  
 source ICU libraries (<a href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/">http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/</a>).  
 Note that this is still marked experimental.</li>  
     <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Out-of-process  
 providers (Experimental) - See PEP 072 for more information on use of  
 this feature </li>  
     <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Shared class namespaces  
 (Experimental) - See PEP 129 for more information on use of this feature</li>  
     <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Remote providers for  
 the CMPI provider interface (Experimental) - See PEP 130 for more  
 information on use of this feature</li>  
   </ol>  
   <h4><b>SLP Discovery</b></h4>  
   <p>SLP support is included but is conditionally compiled in or out on  
 a platform basis.&nbsp;<a  
  href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/uploads/40/8502/PEP200_RecommendedReleaseOptions.htm">  
 PEP 200</a> describes the use of proper environment variable use to  
 enable or disable this code.&nbsp; PEGASUS_DISABLE_SLP and  
 PEGASUS_ENABLE_SLP are the environment variables that control inclusion  
 of this feature.&nbsp; Once compiled, SLP  
 support is enabled with the slp configuration parameter (slp=true). SLP  
 support includes an SLP service agent in the Pegasus CIM sever and  
 generates SLP advertisements compatible with the DMTF slp template  
 specification. The SLP support also includes&nbsp; extensions to the  
 CIM Client libraries to execute SLP User Agent requests and analyze the  
 results (note that these interfaces are not yet part of the Pegasus  
 public SDK).<br>  
 Note: Pegasus on Windows is built with SLP support on by default and to  
 exclude it from the build, then PEGASUS_DISABLE_SLP must be set.<br>  
   </p>   </p>
   <h4>Provider Managers</h4>        <p>The following subsections provide some information on IPv6 support for
   <p>Pegasus is designed to support multiple Provider Managers to allow          the Linux and Windows platforms. Note that in the 2.6.1 release there is
 multiple provider interfaces to the CIMOM.&nbsp; The two default          no automatic run-time detection of IPv6 support on a platform by
 provider managers are the Pegasus C++ Interface and Common          OpenPegasus. If you build with PEGASUS_ENABLE_IPV6=true, your platform
 Manageability Programming Interface (CMPI) Interface.<br>          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.<br>
   </p>   </p>
   <blockquote>        <p>All OpenPegasus externals that support either a hostname or an IP
     <h5><b style="">CMPI C interface Provider Manager<o:p></o:p></b></h5>          address as input have been updated to allow an IPv6 address to be
     <span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;">Pegasus 2.5 includes          specified. If the required input is just an IP address (eg. no optional
 a provider manager for the CMPI C interfaces. This C interface is the          or required port number), then the IPv6 address must be specified
 result of a project by the IBM SBLIM team (see&nbsp;          without brackets. For example, the OpenPegasus osinfo client (which
 http://sblim.sourceforge.net) and is written to the Common          returns information about the OS running on a host system) takes
 Manageability Programming Interface, which is an OpenGroup standard.          separate host and port options. In this case a host with an
 The CMPI          IPv6-configured network interface would be specified as:<br>
 specification is available at:  
 http://www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/c051.htm. This provides a  
 standardized C level interface for creating providers that can be  
 registered with the Pegasus CIM Server in the same manner as the  
 current C++ providers.&nbsp; </span><span  
  style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><span class="norm"></span></span>The  
 ability for CMPI providers to do user authorization is now available in  
 Pegasus 2.5.<br>  
     <span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"> <br>  
 Information on writing providers with the CMPI interface is available  
 in the specification today (see above) and in the following documents  
 (http://sblim.sourceforge.net/whitepaper.html and  
 http://sblim.sourceforge.net/presentations.html) and readme.cmpi in the  
 Pegasus source root directory.</span><br>  
     <h5>JMPI Java Interface Provider Manager</h5>  
     <p>Pegasus includes an experimental provider manager for Java  
 provider interfaces based on the SNIA provider interface  
 definitions.&nbsp; This provider manager is&nbsp; considered alpha  
 quality and is not compiled in the default build.&nbsp;&nbsp; See  
 readme.jmpi in the Pegasus source root directory for more information.</p>  
   </blockquote>  
 </blockquote>  
 <h3><b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Providers</b></h3>  
 <div style="margin-left: 40px;">New for 2.5 is the ability of Providers  
 to run out of process at  
 request user- level and running CMPI providers remotely or out of  
 process space.<br>  
 <br>  
 <span class="norm"></span>Administrators should check the providers to  
 ensure that the provider vendor  
 has made use of available authorization capability.<br>  
 </div>  
 <p style="margin-left: 40px;">There are a number of providers available  
 in the Pegasus release.  
 This includes providers in the following categories:</p>  
 <blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;">  
   <h4>Pegasus Internal Providers</h4>  
   <p>Pegasus provides a set of "internal" providers that have direct  
 access to the CIMOM for information and provide information and  
 services to support the CIMOM and its administration.&nbsp; &nbsp; The  
 providers in this category are mostly defined in the directory  
 src/pegasus/controlproviders and include support for the following  
 classes:</p>  
   <ul>  
     <li>DMTF Interop classes including __Namespace,&nbsp; <span  
  class="SpellE">CIM_Namespace</span>, <span class="SpellE">CIM_ObjectManager</span>,  
       <span class="SpellE">CIM_CommunicationMechanism, and  
 CIMOMStatistics.</span></li>  
   </ul>  
   <h4><span class="SpellE">CMPI Remote</span></h4>  
   <h4><span class="SpellE"></span></h4>  
   <span class="SpellE">Pegasus includes an experimental support for  
 running CMPI providers to be run on remote systems without the need for  
 an extra CIMOM. It uses a special proxying provider to relay requests  
 to a remote location using so-called communication layers. The remote  
 side has to start a CMPIRDaemon process, which accepts remote requests  
 and passes them on to CMPI style providers.<br>  
   </span><span class="SpellE"></span><span class="SpellE"><br>  
   </span>  
   <h4><b>Generic Providers</b></h4>  
   <p>Generic <span class="SpellE">OperatingSystem</span> provider. See  
 the  
 directory <span class="SpellE">src</span>/Providers/generic.</p>  
   <h4><b>Test/Sample Providers</b></h4>  
   <p>See the directories <span class="SpellE">src/Providers/TestProviders</span>  
 and <span class="SpellE">src</span>/Providers/Sample for more  
 information about test and  
 sample providers.</p>  
   <h4><b>Managed System Providers</b></h4>  
   <p><span class="SpellE">ComputerSystem</span>, <span class="SpellE">DNSAdmin</span>,  
   <span class="SpellE">DNSService</span>, Operating System, Process,  
 Processor. For  
 more information on these providers see the documentation for each  
 provider in  
 the directory <span class="SpellE">src/Providers/ManagedSystem</span></p>  
   <h4><span class="SpellE">Server Statistics<br>  
   </span></h4>  
 CIM Server statistics, based on the DMTF 'CIM_StatisticalData' class,  
 are implemented in this release. The statistics gathering is disabled  
 by default. It may be enabled or disabled by performing a  
 ModifyInstance operation on the singleton 'CIM_ObjectManager' instance  
 in the 'PG_InterOp' namespace to set the GatherStatisticalData property  
 to 'true' or 'false'. This property setting is persistent across CIM  
 Server restarts. A statistics display test tool, cimperf, is available  
 from the Pegasus CVS repository.  
   <h4><br>  
   <span class="SpellE"></span></h4>  
   <h4><span class="SpellE">SLP Provider</span></h4>  
   <p><span class="SpellE">This provider acts as the definer of&nbsp;  
 SLP information for SLP registration and also controls the Pegasus SLP  
 Service Agent. It is treated as a normal provider rather than a control  
 provider because it does not use internal functions of the CIMOM to  
 generate any of its information today. (conditionally compiled today)<br>  
   </span></p>  
   <br>  
   <br>  
 </blockquote>  
 <h3><span class="SpellE"><b>CIM_Schema</b></span></h3>  
 <p>The default <span class="SpellE">CIM_Schema</span> loaded with this  
 release is  
 the DMTF CIM 2.9, Final release.&nbsp; In addition, Pegasus includes  
 a number of  
 local classes defined for Pegasus.&nbsp; These are defined in the  
 pegasus/Schemas  
 directory.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style=""></span>There are also a  
 number of older schema available in the CVS.</p>  
 <p>The mechanism to install other schemas than the default is defined  
 in the mak/config.mak</p>  
 <p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b>NOTE:</b> The CIM 2.5 schema is  
 maintained in the  
 CVS repository because it remains the basis for parts of the Pegasus  
 test  
 environment.</p>  
 <h3><b>Pegasus MOF Compilers</b></h3>  
 <p>Pegasus implements a MOF compiler that can operate either at the  
 client  
 interface to the Pegasus CIM Server (<span class="SpellE">cimmof</span>)  
 or directly interfacing with a CIM  
 repository (<span class="SpellE">cimmofl</span>).</p>  
 <p>The direct interface compiler is used primarily to provide an  
 initial  
 class/instance repository. <font color="#ff0000"><b>WARNING:</b></font>&nbsp;  
 the use of <span class="SpellE">cimmofl</span>  
 to manipulate instances in the repository bypasses any provider that is  
 registered to serve these&nbsp; instances and simply installs the  
 instances in the  
 instance repository; this may result in 1) bad data in the repository  
 if there are registered providers, 2) corruption of the repository if  
 the CIM Server is running or, 3) MOF data that is loaded but not  
 available until the server is stopped and restarted in some  
 cases.&nbsp; Use of <span class="SpellE">cimmofl in general is  
 discouraged and particularly </span>&nbsp;to manipulate  
 instances served by a registered providers (ex. Provider registration).  
 <br>  
 </p> </p>
 <h3><b>Client Tools</b></h3>        <div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(153, 51, 153); font-family: monospace;"><big><font
 Lightweight statistics are now implemented for              color="#000000">osinfo -h 3ffe:1:2:1 -p 5988</font></big></div>
 the        <p>But the cimcli command, which takes an optional "location" option
 client. The client statistics surfaces the elapsed time spent in the          including an optional port number, requires the IPv6 address to be
 client,          delimited with brackets, for example:<br>
 and the  
 elapsed time spent on the network between client and server.<br>  
 <br>  
 <h3><b>Pegasus CIM Server <span class="SpellE">Administration</span></b></h3>  
 <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1">  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span class="SpellE">cimuser</span>  
 - Manage Pegasus CIM Server Users.<o:p></o:p></li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span class="SpellE">cimconfig</span>  
 - Manage the Pegasus CIM Server configuration parameters.<o:p></o:p></li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span class="SpellE">cimauth</span>  
 - Manage the CIM Server authorization characteristics. Today this is  
 authorizing users to namespaces.<o:p></o:p></li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span class="SpellE">cimprovider</span>  
 - Manage information about the providers .</li>  
 </ol>  
 <br>  
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="font-weight: bold;">Server admin  
 note:</span><br>  
 <div style="margin-left: 40px;">The default behavior for determining  
 the CIM server's HTTP and HTTPS ports has changed.&nbsp; In previous  
 releases, any value in /etc/services would override a port explicitly  
 specified in the configuration.&nbsp; The new order for determining the  
 CIM server's HTTP and HTTPS ports is as follows:<br>  
 1) An explicitly specified port value takes precedence over any other  
 values.<br>  
 </div>  
 <div style="margin-left: 40px;">2) If no port is specified, the value  
 in /etc/services is used.<br>  
 3) If no value is specified in /etc/services, the default WBEM port is  
 used.<br>  
 </div>  
 <h3><b>Information client tools</b></h3>  
 <p>These tools provide information on the objects managed by the server.</p>  
 <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1">  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span class="SpellE">tomof</span>  
 - output classes and/or instance information from the Pegasus  
 repository in MOF or XML format.<o:p></o:p></li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span class="SpellE">dnsinfo</span>  
 - Generate a set of standard information on the <span class="SpellE">Domain</span>  
 Name System (DNS) configuration from CIM Classes. Note that the  
 information generated is dependent on the information available from  
 providers and differs from system to system.<o:p></o:p></li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span class="SpellE">ipinfo</span>  
 - Generates a set of standard information from the Network  
 Schema.&nbsp; Information generated varies by system because of the  
 level of provider support.<o:p></o:p></li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span class="SpellE">osinfo</span>  
 - Generate a set of standard information on the Operating System from  
 CIM Classes. Note that the information generated is dependent on the  
 information available from providers and differs from system to system<o:p></o:p></li>  
 </ol>  
 <h3><b>Test support Tools</b></h3>  
 <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1">  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Pegasus unit tests  
 (available through the "tests" option on the Pegasus make files) these  
 tests are defined throughout the Pegasus source tree typically in  
 "tests" directories.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">The Pegasus test suite  
 (see the pegasus/tests directory<span class="SpellE"></span>)<o:p></o:p></li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><b><span class="SpellE">TestClient</span>  
     </b>- Basic client for overall platform operation testing. <o:p></o:p></li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><b><span class="SpellE">wbemexec</span></b>  
 - Test tool that sends/receives XML from XML input.<o:p></o:p></li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><b>CLI</b> - Command line  
 interface for Client commands.<o:p></o:p></li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><b>Benchmark Test</b> - A  
 benchmark test environment is provided which includes both a client and  
 provider component. See <span class="SpellE">src/clients/benchmarkTest</span>  
 for more information.<o:p></o:p></li>  
 </ol>  
 <h3><b>Pegasus Interface APIs</b></h3>  
 <p>Details of the Pegasus public interfaces for this release are listed  
 in PEP 209  
 available from the web <span class="GramE">site(</span><a  
  href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/uploads/40/Administrator/My%20Documents/processes/www.openpegasus.org">www.openpegasus.org</a>).  
 That document is the <span class="SpellE">authorative</span> source  
 for the list of publicly supported Pegasus APIs.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Client  
 and Provider API were originally frozen at the&nbsp;Pegasus version 2.1  
 release. The interfaces in the release of Pegasus 2.1 are forward  
 compatible to this release. Well-behaved clients and providers compiled  
 to the Pegasus 2.1 or 2.2 interfaces should be compatible with this  
 release without compilation.&nbsp; There have been extensions and new  
 interfaces added for this release and these are marked as experimental.  
 &nbsp; The Pegasus public  
 interfaces includes the following major functions</p>  
 <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1">  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Client APIs<o:p></o:p></li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Provider APIs<o:p></o:p></li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">CIM Object and System  
 function APIs</li>  
 </ol>  
 <p>In addition, there are other client interfaces which are not today  
 in the public SDK including:</p>  
 <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1">  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style=""  
  lang="DA">CIM Listener APIs</span></li>  
   <ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">  
     <li class="MsoNormal">CIM Listener  
 is a component that can be used to consume indications without a  
 dependency on the Pegasus CIMOM. In environments where no CIMOM is  
 running or a physical separation between the indication listener and  
 the CIMOM is desired, CIM Listener fits the bill. Still, there are  
 several enhancements that are necessary to make CIM Listener scalable. <font  
  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Enhancements were deemed significant  
 enough to propose a new listener that builds off CIMListener's  
 basic capabilities, yet allows the existing CIMListener to remain the  
 same.</font></li>  
     <ul>  
       <li><font size="2"><b>New CIM Listener now provides selective  
 indication delivery.</b><span class="norm"></span></font><br>  
       </li>  
       <li><span class="norm"></span><font size="2"><b>New CIM Listener  
 keeps all consumer libraries in memory for the duration of its  
 execution.</b><span class="norm"></span></font><br>  
       </li>  
       <li><span class="norm"></span><font size="2"><b>New CIM Listener  
 is now pluggable.</b><br>  
         <span class="norm"></span></font></li>  
       <li><span class="norm"></span><font size="2"><b>New CIM Listener  
 now provides reliable indication delivery.</b></font></li>  
     </ul>  
   </ul>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span lang="da">SLP  
 Client (User Agent) APIs which are extensions to the Client APIs</span></li>  
 </ol>  
 <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>  
 <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">The APIs are  
 documented in  
 their respective header files and&nbsp; in HTML documentation based on  
 the information  
 in the header files extracted with the doc++ tool will be available on  
 the  
 OpenPegasus web site.<br>  
 &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>  
 <h3><b>WMI <span class="SpellE">Mapper</span></b></h3>  
 <p>The WBEM to WMI <span class="SpellE">Mapper</span> provides a way  
 to access  
 WMI data from Windows platform systems. It converts incoming XML/CIM  
 requests  
 to Microsoft WMI requests, executes the requests, converts the results  
 to  
 XML/CIM and returns the results to the client. WMI <span class="SpellE">Mapper</span>  
 receives an HTTP message containing the XML/CIM request. It decodes the  
 XML  
 message and extracts from the HTTP message header the user credentials  
 provided  
 on the connection (username and password). The WMI <span class="SpellE">Mapper</span>  
 authenticates these credentials, verifying if the provided credentials  
 have  
 access to the desired WMI data. This is done because the WMI <span  
  class="SpellE">Mapper</span> runs as a service, logged on using an  
 account with  
 administrative rights (which has all access to WMI data). Because of  
 this, the  
 WMI <span class="SpellE">Mapper</span> impersonates the user  
 credentials provided  
 on the HTTP message to ensure that the calling user has rights to  
 browse WMI  
 data. Hence, ALL requests made to the WMI <span class="SpellE">Mapper</span>  
 MUST  
 contain user credentials.<br>  
 </p> </p>
 <h3><b><b>Indication Handlers</b></b></h3>        <div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: monospace;"><big>cimcli ns -l
 System Log Indication Handler<br>            [3ffe:1:2:1]</big></div>
 <div style="margin-left: 40px;">The SysLog Indication Handler is a new        <p>or</p>
 for 2.5        <div style="margin-left: 40px;"><big><span style="font-family: monospace;">cimcli
 type of Indication Handler which allows CIM Indications to be delivered              ns -l [3ffe:1:2:1]:5989</span></big><br>
 to the system syslog file. It has following features:<br>  
 </div> </div>
 <ul>  
   <li>Each syslog file entry has a tag 'CIM Indication' to distinguish  
 an entry made by Syslog Indication Handler.</li>  
 </ul>  
 <ul>  
   <li>If a subscriber includes PerceivedSeverity property in the SELECT  
 list of the filter condition for the indication, the PerceivedSeverity  
 will be mapped to syslog error severity. Otherwise, syslog error  
 severity 'LOG_INFO' is used.</li>  
   <li>See <a  
  href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/uploads/40/7165/PEP206-SystemLogIndicationHandler.htm">PEP  
 206</a> for details.<br>  
   </li>  
 </ul>  
 <br>  
 Email Indicaiton Handler<br>  
 <div style="margin-left: 40px;">The Email Indication Handler is a new  
 for 2.5  
 type of Indication Handler that allows CIM Indications to be delivered  
 to a specified e-mail address.&nbsp;&nbsp; See <a  
  href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/uploads/40/7166/PEP207-EmailIndicationHandler.htm">PEP  
 207</a>&nbsp; for details. <br>  
 </div>  
 <br>  
 <br> <br>
 <ol>        For more information on specifying IPv6 addresses, refer to <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2373.txt">IETF
 </ol>  RFC
 <h2><a name="Relationship_to_CIMWBEM_Standards"></a>Relationship to          2373 - IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture</a> and <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2732.txt">IETF
 CIM/WBEM Standards</h2>          RFC 2732 - Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's</a>.<br>
 <p>Pegasus was designed and implemented to comply with the DMTF        <h4><font color="#000000">IPv6 on Linux</font></h4>
         <p>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.</p>
         <p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Note: </span>you shouldn't&nbsp;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.<br>
         </p>
         <p>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:<br>
         </p>
         <div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(153, 51, 153); font-family: monospace;"><big><font
               color="#000000">test -f /proc/net/if_inet6 &amp;&amp; echo "Running
               kernel is IPv6 ready"</font></big></div>
         <p>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>.<br>
           <br>
           <span style="font-weight: bold;">Warning</span>: 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 style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">
             <a href="http://cvs.opengroup.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6586">Pegasus
   bug
               6586</a> </span>and<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"> <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=248052">RedHat
   bug
               248052</a>, </span>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.</p>
         <h4><font color="#000000">IPv6 on Windows</font></h4>
         <p>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.</p>
         On Windows XP, you can use the <span style="font-weight: bold;">ipv6.exe</span>
         tool to install, uninstall, and query your IPv6 configuration. For
         example:<br>
         <br>
         <div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(153, 51, 153); font-family: monospace;"><big><font
               color="#000000">ipv6 install<br>
               ipv6 if</font></big></div>
         <p>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.<br>
           <br>
           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</font></a>.<br>
         </p>
         <h4><font color="#000000">Testing&nbsp; OpenPegasus IPv6 support</font></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.<br>
         <br>
         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:<br>
         <div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br>
           <big style="font-family: monospace;"> osinfo -h ::1</big></div>
         <h2><a name="Compatibility_Considerations_">Compatibility Considerations</a></h2>
         <p>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
           defects/fixes that MAY impact, even well-behaved, OpenPegasus providers
           or clients when upgrading to this OpenPegasus release. <br>
         </p>
         <table style="font-family: Arial;" bordercolordark="#666666" bordercolorlight="#CCCCCC"
           border="1" cellspacing="1" width="80%">
           <tbody>
             <tr align="center">
               <th bgcolor="#00ffff" width="10%">Bugzilla #</th>
               <th bgcolor="#00ffff">Description</th>
             </tr>
             <tr align="center">
               <td><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8830">Bug
                   8830</a></td>
               <td align="left">Starting with OpenPegasus 2.11.0 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 align="center">
               <td><a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9369">Bug
                   9369</a><br>
               </td>
               <td align="left">Reregistering of an indication provider requires
                 that the&nbsp; cimserver be restarted to send the enableIndication
                 request to the providers. This issue has existed starting with
                 OpenPegasus 2.10 to the current version. If the cimserver is not
                 restarted the indication will not be enabled for the reregistered
                 provider. </td>
             </tr>
           </tbody>
         </table>
         <h2>OpenPegasus Relationship to CIM/WBEM Standards</h2>
         <p>Pegasus was designed and implemented to comply with the DMTF CIM/WBEM
 specifications The following table defines the level of the DMTF specifications The following table defines the level of the DMTF
 specifications which which Pegasus conforms today.</p>          specifications to which this version of Pegasus aims to conform today.</p>
 <table id="AutoNumber1" border="1" cellspacing="1" width="100%">        <table id="AutoNumber1" border="1" cellspacing="1" width="80%">
   <tbody>   <tbody>
     <tr>     <tr>
       <td bgcolor="#00ffff" width="33%"><b>DMTF Specification</b></td>       <td bgcolor="#00ffff" width="33%"><b>DMTF Specification</b></td>
       <td bgcolor="#00ffff" width="33%"><b>Specification Version</b></td>       <td bgcolor="#00ffff" width="33%"><b>Specification Version</b></td>
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr>     <tr>
       <td width="33%">DSP 0004 CIM Specification</td>              <td width="33%">DSP 0004 - CIM Infrastructure Specification</td>
       <td width="33%">Version 2.2 with Addendum</td>              <td width="33%">Version 2.3 Final, 4 October 2005</td>
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr>     <tr>
       <td width="33%">DSP 0200 - CIM Operations over HTTP</td>       <td width="33%">DSP 0200 - CIM Operations over HTTP</td>
       <td width="33%">1.1, final, 6&nbsp; January 2002</td>              <td width="33%">Version 1.2, Final, January 09, 2007</td>
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr>     <tr>
       <td width="33%">DSP 0201 - Representation of CIM in XML</td>       <td width="33%">DSP 0201 - Representation of CIM in XML</td>
       <td width="33%">2.1, preliminary, May 2, 2002</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>
     <tr>     <tr>
       <td width="33%">DSP 0205 - WBEM Discovery using SLP</td>       <td width="33%">DSP 0205 - WBEM Discovery using SLP</td>
       <td width="33%">1.0, preliminary, 27 January 2004</td>       <td width="33%">1.0, preliminary, 27 January 2004</td>
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr>     <tr>
       <td width="33%">WBEM SLP Template</td>              <td width="33%">DSP 0206 - WBEM SLP Template</td>
       <td width="33%">1.0.0</td>              <td width="33%">1.0.0, Preliminary, January 2004</td>
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr>     <tr>
       <td width="33%">CIM Schema </td>       <td width="33%">CIM Schema </td>
       <td width="33%">2.9 Final, Jan. 2005</td>              <td width="33%">2.31.0 Final ( default) </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
               <td>DSP0226 - Web Services for Management<br>
               </td>
               <td>Version 1.1.1<br>
               </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
               <td>DSP0227 - WS-Management CIM Binding Specification<br>
               </td>
               <td>Version 1.2.0<br>
               </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
               <td>DSP0230 - WS-CIM Mapping Specification </td>
               <td>Version 1.1.0<br>
               </td>
     </tr>     </tr>
   </tbody>   </tbody>
 </table> </table>
 <h2><b><span style="font-family: Times;"><a name="Supported Platforms">Supported        <h2><a name="Conformance with DMTF Specifications"></a>DMTF/SNIS SMI
           Profiles Supported</h2>
         <p>Today OpenPegasus includes support for several DMTF profiles including
           the ones defined below:</p>
         <ol>
           <li>DMTF ProfileRegistration Version 1.0.0</li>
           <li>DMTF Indications 1.1.0. Since this is effectively the same as the
             SNIA SMI Indication profile it also supports this profile. This
             profile is enabled by compiling OpenPegasus with the buld variable
             PEGASUS_ENABLE_DMTF_INDICATION_SUPPORT.<br>
           </li>
           <li>SNIA Profile Registration 1.0.0</li>
           <li>SNIA Server 1.1.0 &amp; 1.2.0<br>
           </li>
         </ol>
         <h2><a name="Conformance with DMTF Specifications">Conformance Exceptions
             to DMTF Specifications</a></h2>
         <p>It is a major goal of the OpenPegasus project to both drive and utilize
           the DMTF CIM/WBEM specifications.&nbsp; However, today there are a
           number of known differences.&nbsp; As of this release, some of the
           differences include the following:</p>
         <ol>
           <li><b>Provider Registration</b> - 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.&nbsp; 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><b>Lifecycle Indications </b>-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">
             </font><span class="norm"><font color="#ff0000">&nbsp;</font>For more
               information see the Pegasus CVS file:<a name="comtag_137"><font size="2">
                 </font><font face="Courier New" size="2">&nbsp;pegasus/src/Unsupported/LifecycleIndicationProvider/README.LifecycleIndications.htm</font></a><font
                 size="2">.</font></span></li>
           <li>
             <p class="MsoNormal"><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">IncludeQualifiers
   option
                 on Instance Operations</font><span style="color: black;"><b>&nbsp;</b>
                 - 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.&nbsp; 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).&nbsp; </span>&nbsp;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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; In the future it is expected that
               Pegasus will deprecate the use of qualifiers on instance operations
               completely. &nbsp;When Pegasus uses object normalization, the
               normalizer does apply qualifiers to returned instances if the
               includeQualifiers operation parameter is set.</p>
           </li>
           <li><b>LocalOnly option on instance Operations </b>- 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>
             <p class="MsoNormal"><b>MultiRequest Operations</b> - Pegasus does not
               support the DMTF defined MultiRequest Operation option.</p>
           </li>
           <li>
             <p class="MsoNormal"><b>MOF Compiler namespace pragma</b> - The
               Pegasus compiler does not support the namespace pragma.</p>
           </li>
           <li><b>CIMOperation Trailer </b>- 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.&nbsp;</li>
           <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Whitespace in XML value Element</span>
             - Pegasus trims the leading and trailing whitespace from XML value
             elements that are of the Type String. &nbsp;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. &nbsp;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 incorporated into the code until a major version
             update. &nbsp;These bugs are documented with the Bugzilla tag <big style="font-weight: bold;"><samp>"3.0_TARGET".</samp></big></li>
           <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">modifyInstance operation behavior
               in the Pegasus repository does not match the DMTF specification</span>.
             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>
           <li><b>OpenPegasus Interop Namespace</b> - The default interop namespace
             name in OpenPegasus is "root/PG_Interop".&nbsp; In versions of
             OpenPegasus prior to 2.12.0 this could be changed during build by
             modifying a string definition in the code. Effective version 2.12
             this&nbsp; has become a build option with the build configuraton
             environment variable PEGASUS_INTEROP_NAMESPACE = &lt;name for this
             namespace&gt; however, the default if built without this change is
             still "root/PG_InterOp"<br>
           </li>
           <li><b>OpenPegasus WSMAN protocol on windows does not handle NaN, INF,
               or -INF</b> (bug&nbsp; <a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8836">8836</a>)
             - If requests or responses include properties or parameters with
             floating point property types (Real32 or Real64) with the special
             states NaN, INF, or -INF on a Windows platform, the input is not
             accepted because these special strings are not understood by the
             decoder on Windows.</li>
           <li><b>OpenPegasus outputs Nan, INF, -INF special values for Real32 and
               Real64 property and Parameter types for the CIM/XML protocol</b> -
             (bug <a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9392">9392</a>).
             Today the DMTF Specification DSP0201 allows only numeric information
             in the format definition for this type and does not all the special
             strings Nan, etc. However, OpenPegasus actually outputs the special
             strings if&nbsp; that is what is defined in the internal values.&nbsp;
             OpenPegasus does not allow these special Strings on input however,</li>
           <li><b>OpenPegasus does not handle covered properties</b> - (bug <a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3571">3571</a>)
             Covered properties (properties which have the same name in a
             superclass and subclass without overridding the property in the
             superclass) are not allowed in OpenPegasus. While the requirement for
             this functionality was added to DSP0004 subsequent to version 2.4, the
             general agreement is that the requirement itself is not supportable
             and particularly not with the existing OpenPegasus APIs.&nbsp;
             Further, the requirement is expected to be removed in the future (i.e
             CIM 3.0).<br>
           </li>
         </ol>
         <h2><b><span style="font-family: Times;">OpenPegasus <a name="Supported Platforms">Supported
 Platforms</a></span></b></h2> Platforms</a></span></b></h2>
 <p>Each Pegasus release lists as 'active' platforms those        <p align="left">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          code base including a maintainer for the platform that will be willing
 base including a maintainer for the platform that will be willing to          to regularly document issues and/or fix defects as the Pegasus code base
 regularly document issues and/or fix defects as the Pegasus          is changed.&nbsp; Pegasus may be operable on other platforms (ex.
 code base is changed.&nbsp;          Windows 98) but without a group to provide the role of test and
 Pegasus may be operable on other platforms (ex. Windows 98) but without          maintenance, correct operation of&nbsp; Pegasus cannot be assured.&nbsp;
 a group          In all cases, including the active platforms, it is the responsibility
 to provide the role of test and maintenance, correct operation of&nbsp;          of the entity that packages and/or compiles OpenPegasus for shipment or
 Pegasus cannot be          deployment, to read, and actively monitor the Pegasus Bugzilla database
 assured.&nbsp; In all cases, including the active platforms, it is the          for a list of relevant defects that affect their platform.&nbsp;&nbsp;
 responsibility of the entity that packages and/or compiles OpenPegasus          The platforms that are considered ported are shown in the two tables
 for shipment or deployment, to read, and actively monitor the Pegasus          below.&nbsp; The first table represents platform for which testing is
 bugzilla database for a list of relevant defects that affect their          done on a regular basis and reported to the Pegasus Nightly Build Test
 platform. &nbsp; The platforms that are considered 'active' for this          WEB Page. Those platforms which have been ported but do not have test
 Pegasus release are:<br>          results that are current at the time of the release are reported in the
 <span class="norm"></span><br>          second table.</p>
 </p>        <b>Actively Supported Platforms (Nightly Tests Reported for this release)</b>
 <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 302.25pt;" border="1"        <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 90%;" border="1" cellpadding="0"
  cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" height="409" width="504">          cellspacing="1">
   <tbody>   <tbody>
     <tr style="">     <tr style="">
       <td              <td style="padding: 0.75pt; background: rgb(0, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; width: 240px;"
  style="padding: 0.75pt; background: rgb(153, 255, 153) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; width: 126.75pt;"                height="26">
  height="26" width="211">  
       <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black;">Platform and       <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black;">Platform and
 OS</span></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> OS</span></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
       </td>       </td>
       <td              <td style="padding: 0.75pt; background: rgb(0, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; width: 75%;"
  style="padding: 0.75pt; background: rgb(153, 255, 153) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; width: 173.25pt;"                height="26">
  height="26" width="289">  
       <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black;">Compilers</span></b><span       <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black;">Compilers</span></b><span
  style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>  style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
       </td>       </td>
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr style="">     <tr style="">
       <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" height="25"              <td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
  width="211">                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">HP-UX<o:p>
       <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">HP-UX<o:p></o:p></span></p>                      PA_RISC and Itanium</o:p></span></p>
       </td>              </td>
       <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 173.25pt;" height="25"              <td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
  width="289">                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">HP <span class="SpellE">aC</span>++
       <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">HP <span                    B3910B<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  class="SpellE">aC</span>++ B3910B<o:p></o:p></span></p>  
       </td>       </td>
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr style="">     <tr style="">
       <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" height="25"              <td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
  width="211">                <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE"><span style="color: black;">Linux
       <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE"><span                      on Power</span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
  style="color: black;">Linux on Power</span></span><span  
  style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>  
       </td>       </td>
       <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 173.25pt;" height="25"              <td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
  width="289">                <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE"><span style="color: black;">gcc</span></span><span
       <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE"><span                    style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
  style="color: black;">gcc</span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>  
       </td>       </td>
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr style="">     <tr style="">
       <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" height="25"              <td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
  width="211">                <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE"><span style="color: black;">zLinux</span></span><span
       <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE"><span                    style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
  style="color: black;">zLinux</span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>              </td>
       </td>              <td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
       <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 173.25pt;" height="25"                <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE"><span style="color: black;">gcc</span></span><span
  width="289">                    style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
       <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE"><span  
  style="color: black;">gcc</span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>  
       </td>       </td>
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr style="">     <tr style="">
       <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" height="25"              <td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
  width="211">  
       <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Linux Itanium<o:p></o:p></span></p>       <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Linux Itanium<o:p></o:p></span></p>
       </td>       </td>
       <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 173.25pt;" height="25"              <td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
  width="289">                <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE"><span style="color: black;">gcc</span></span><span
       <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE"><span                    style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
  style="color: black;">gcc</span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>  
       </td>       </td>
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr style="">     <tr style="">
       <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" height="25"              <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <span style="color: black;"><font size="3">Linux
  width="211">                    IA-32</font></span></td>
       <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Linux IA-32<o:p></o:p></span></p>              <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <span class="SpellE"><span style="color: black;"><font
       </td>                      size="3">gcc</font></span></span><span style="color: black;"><font
       <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 173.25pt;" height="25"                    size="3"> (versions 3.xx, 4.xx) clang(The clang compiler usage
  width="289">                    is considered experimental and is not part of the nightly
       <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE"><span                    tests today)</font><o:p></o:p></span></td>
  style="color: black;">gcc</span></span><span style="color: black;">            </tr>
 (versions 2.9x and 3.xx)<o:p></o:p></span></p>            <tr style="">
               <td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
                 <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Linux X86_64<o:p></o:p></span></p>
               </td>
               <td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
                 <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE"><span style="color: black;">gcc</span></span><span
                     style="color: black;"> (versions 3.xx, 4.xx) </span><span style="color: black;"><font
                       size="3">clang(The clang compiler usage is considered
                       experimental and is not part of the nightly tests today)</font></span></p>
       </td>       </td>
     </tr>     </tr>
             <tr>
               <td style="vertical-align: top;"><font size="3">z/OS V1.7 and up</font></td>
               <td style="vertical-align: top;"><font size="3">XL C/C++ from z/OS
                   Version 1.7 and up</font></td>
             </tr>
           </tbody>
         </table>
         &nbsp;
         <p align="center"><b>Platforms not Actively supported for this release (No
             current Nightly Build Test Results</b></p>
         <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 90%;" id="table2" border="1" cellpadding="0"
           cellspacing="1">
           <tbody>
     <tr style="">     <tr style="">
       <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" height="91"              <td style="padding: 0.75pt; background: rgb(0, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; width: 240px;"
  width="211">                height="26">
       <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Windows 2000<o:p></o:p></span></p>                <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black;">Platform and
       </td>                      OS</span></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
       <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 173.25pt;" height="91"              </td>
  width="289">              <td style="padding: 0.75pt; background: rgb(0, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; width: 75%;"
       <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="NL">Microsoft                height="26">
 Visual C++ Ver 6 and Microsoft .Net compiler Version.&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span                <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black;">Compilers</span></b><span
  style="color: black;">Works on VC .NET 2003 (<span class="SpellE">aka</span>                    style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
 v7.1)<o:p></o:p></span></p>  
       </td>       </td>
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr>     <tr>
       <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" height="69"              <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <font size="3">Windows XP, Windows
  width="211">                  Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008</font>
       <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Windows XP<o:p></o:p></span></p>                <p></p>
       </td>  
       <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 173.25pt;" height="69"  
  width="289">  
       <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="NL">Microsoft  
 Visual C++ Ver. 6 and Microsoft .Net compiler Version </span>7.1<span  
  style="color: black;" lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>  
       </td>       </td>
               <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <font size="3">Microsoft Visual C++
                   Compilers 2003 - 2010.. Note: Visual C++ Ver. 6 no longer being
                   regular tested.Note that today there are some open issues with
                   the Windows.</font> </td>
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr style="">     <tr style="">
       <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" height="43"              <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <font size="3">MacOS version 10.3 and
  width="211"> <font size="3">MacOS version 10.2 and higher</font></td>                  higher</font></td>
       <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 173.25pt;" height="43"              <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <font size="3">gcc 4.01</font></td>
  width="289"> <font size="3">gcc 3.3</font></td>  
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr>     <tr>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;"><big>HP OpenVMS Alpha<br>              <td style="vertical-align: top;"><big><font color="RED"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Solaris
       </big></td>                      8</span></font></big></td>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;">&nbsp;<big><font              <td style="vertical-align: top;"><big>GNU&nbsp; 2.95.3,&nbsp; Sun CC
  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="RED">HP C++ V6.5-042 for OpenVMS                  compiler V 5.8. Note that the latest thread patch (108993) may
 Alpha and above</font></big> </td>                  be required. (see Pegasus bug 4632)</big><br>
               </td>
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr>     <tr>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;"><big><span class="norm"></span><font  
  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> HP OpenVMS IA64</font></big></td>  
       <td style="vertical-align: top;"><span class="norm"></span><big><font       <td style="vertical-align: top;"><span class="norm"></span><big><font
  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">HP C++ V7.1-011 on OpenVMS IA64 and above</font></big>                    color="RED"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Solaris 9</span></font></big></td>
               <td style="vertical-align: top;"><big>GNU&nbsp; 2.95.3, Sun WorkShop
                   6 update 2 C++ 5.3, patch 111685-22 2005/04/09</big><br>
       </td>       </td>
     </tr>     </tr>
     <tr>     <tr>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;"><span class="norm"></span><big><font><font              <td><big>HP OpenVMS 8.3 or later Alpha</big></td>
  color="RED"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Solaris 8<br>              <td><big><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="RED">HP C++ V<span
 * See below for additional info<br>                      style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">7.3-009 or later required</span>
       </span> </font></font></big></td>                    for OpenVMS Alpha</font></big></td>
       <td style="vertical-align: top;"><big>GNU&nbsp; 2.95.3</big><br>            </tr>
             <tr>
               <td><big><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> HP OpenVMS 8.3 or later
                     IA64</font></big></td>
               <td><big><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">HP C++ V7.</font><font color="#993399">3-023
                     or later required</font><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> on
                     OpenVMS IA64</font></big></td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
               <td style="padding: 0.75pt;">
                 <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Windows 2000</span></p>
       </td>       </td>
               <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <font size="3">Microsoft Visual C++
                   Ver.&nbsp; 6 and Microsoft .Net compiler version.&nbsp;Works on
                   VC .NET 2003 v7.1). NOTE: Visual C++ Ver. 6 no longer being
                   regularly tested.</font></td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
               <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <font size="3">Windows 2003</font>
                 <p></p>
               </td>
               <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <font size="3">Microsoft Visual C++
                   Ver. 6 and Microsoft .Net compiler Version 7.1. Note: Visual C++
                   Ver. 6 no longer being regular tested. </font> </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>     </tr>
   </tbody>   </tbody>
 </table> </table>
 <br>        <p><b>Platform patches</b> </p>
 <span style="font-weight: bold;">Solaris:</span>&nbsp; Solaris testing        <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The
 began late in the 2.5 release cycle, thus has not been thoroughly            following is a list known of platform patches Pegasus requires.</font></p>
 tested.&nbsp; In order for Pegasus 2.5 to function properly on that        <div style="margin-left: 40px;">
 platform, changes documented in OpenPegasus Bugzilla 4179&nbsp; must be  
 applied.&nbsp;<span class="norm"><font color="RED">  
 </font></span>  
 <h2><small><b><b>Platform patches</b></b></small></h2>  
 <font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The following is a list of platform  
 patches Pegasus requires.<br>  
 <br>  
 </font>  
 <div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">RHAS  
 2.1 needs the update to fix Red Hat Bugzilla 98815.</font><br>  
 </div>  
 <br>  
 <p>Further information regarding Pegasus support on IBM platforms can  
 be  
 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</span></a>  
 </p>  
 <p> <br>  
 Further information regarding Pegasus support on HP platforms can be  
 found at:  
 <a href="http://www.hp.com/go/wbem">http://www.hp.com/go/wbem</a>.</p>  
 <p><o:p><br>  
 </o:p></p>  
 <h2><a name="Conformance with DMTF Specifications">Conformance with  
 DMTF Specifications</a></h2>  
 <p>It is a major goal  
 of the OpenPegasus project to both drive and utilize the DMTF CIM/WBEM  
 specifications.&nbsp; However, today there are a number of known  
 differences.&nbsp;  
 As of this release, some of the differences include the following:</p>  
 <ol> <ol>
   <li><b>Provider Registration</b> - 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.</li>  
   <li>&nbsp;<b>Indications </b>-Today Pegasus supports process  
 indications but does not  
 include any specific support for lifecycle indications.</li>  
   <li>  
     <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">&nbsp;</span><font  
  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">IncludeQualifiers  
 option on Instance Operations</font><span style="color: black;"><b>&nbsp;</b>  
 -  
 The DMTF specifications are unclear regarding the inclusion of  
 qualifiers on  
 CIM instances.&nbsp; 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).&nbsp; </span>&nbsp;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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; In the future it is expected  
 that Pegasus will deprecate the use of qualifiers on instance  
 operations completely.</p>  
   </li>  
   <li><b>LocalOnly option on instance  
 Operations </b>- With the 1.1 version of Specification for CIM  
 Operations over HTTP, the definition of the LocalOnly parameter for the  
 GetInstance and EnumerateInstances 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.</li>  
   <li>   <li>
     <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;<b>CIM MOF compiler function for              <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> <font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">RHAS
 instance aliasing</b> - The Pegasus MOF compiler does not today support  2.1
 this function.&nbsp; This function is planned for a future version.</p>                  needs the update to fix Red Hat Bugzilla 98815.</font></p>
   </li>   </li>
   <li>   <li>
     <p class="MsoNormal"><b>&nbsp;MultiRequest Oprations</b> - Pegasus              <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">RHEL 4.4
 does not support the DMTF defined MultiRequest Operation option.</p>                multithreading bug in getpwuid-r could cause a CIM Server failure
                 (Bugzilla 6232). This is fixed in RHEL 4.5</p>
   </li>   </li>
   <li>   <li>
     <p class="MsoNormal"><b>MOFCompiler namespace pragma</b> - The              <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Red Hat and SUSE
 Pegasus compiler does not support the namespace pragma.</p>                Linux multiple versions - multithreaded client intermittently
   </li>                fails connecting to IPv6 (Pegasus Bugzilla 6586) (Red Hat bug
 </ol>                248052)<br>
 <h2><a name="Changes in This Release">Changes in This Release</a></h2>  
 <p>The development and release of each version of Pegasus is defined  
 and  
 controlled through Pegasus PEP documents.&nbsp; PEP 180 is the  
 controlling document  
 this release and lists the original set of changes proposed and the  
 status of  
 each of those changes. Note that not all of the originally defined  
 functionality was completed for this release.</p>  
 <p>In general, the areas of development for this release were:</p>  
 <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1">  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">  
     <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Addition of CQL  
 stage 1 support<br>  
     </p>  
   </li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">  
     <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Refactoring of  
 Object Normalizer function to improve performance. </p>  
   </li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">  
     <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Out of Process  
 Provider user level request.<br>  
     </p>  
   </li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">  
     <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Embedded Object  
 support.&nbsp; </p>  
   </li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">  
     <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Command Line  
 Utilities<br>  
     </p>  
   </li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">  
     <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">CIMDateTime  
 enhancements<br>  
     </p>     </p>
   </li>   </li>
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">  
     <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Completion of  
 AutoPtr enhancements. </p>  
   </li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">  
     <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Certificate  
 management and user-based certificate authentication<br>  
     </p>  
   </li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">  
     <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Completion of HTTP  
 chunking. <font style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" color="RED">Pegasus  
 now supports HTTP V1.1 transfer encoding otherwise known as chunking .<a  
  href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/uploads/40/5097/PEP140_ChunkedEncoding_4.3.html">  
 PEP 140</a> describes the implementation details.</font></p>  
   </li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Client side performance  
 statistics</li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Syslog Indication handler.</li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Email Indication handler.</li>  
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Port to OpenVMS.</li>  
 </ol> </ol>
 <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">&nbsp;</p>        </div>
 The complete set of <span class="SpellE">PEPs</span> defined for        <p>Further information regarding Pegasus support on IBM platforms can be
 this release is defined in PEP 180.          found at: <a href="http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r1/en_US/index.htm?info/icmain.htm"><span
 <h2><span style="color: black;"><a name="PEGASUS Bugs">Pegasus defects<br>              style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r1/en_US/index.htm?info/icmain.htm</span></a>
 </a></span></h2>  
 <p>The Pegasus bugzilla database documents any defects found in Pegasus  
 and&nbsp; is available through the following link:&nbsp; <a  
  href="http://cvs.rdg.opengroup.org/bugzilla/">OpenPegasus bugzilla  
 database</a>.&nbsp; <br>  
 </p> </p>
 <br>        <p> Further information regarding Pegasus support on HP platforms can be
 <h2><a          found at: <a href="http://www.hp.com/go/wbem">http://www.hp.com/go/wbem</a>.</p>
  name="Pegasus Release Control and Version Definition Documentation">Pegasus        <h2><span style="color: black;"><a name="PEGASUS Bugs">Pegasus Defects</a></span></h2>
 Release Control and Version Definition Documentation</a></h2>        <p>The OpenPegasus Bugzilla database documents any defects found in
 <p>The Pegasus project is controlled largely through a set of documents          Pegasus and&nbsp; is available through the following link:&nbsp; <a href="http://cvs.rdg.opengroup.org/bugzilla/">OpenPegasus
 (PEPs) that serve as the definition and review mechanism for new and            bugzilla database</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp; Effective with the start of the
 modified Pegasus functionality and for the definition and documentation          OpenPegasus 2.6 work, all changes to the CVS tree are documented through
 of releases.</p>          bugs.&nbsp; Bugs reports are filed not only for bugs and their
 <p>Specifically the following PEPs define the characteristics of this          corresponding fixes but also as part of the process of committing new
 Pegasus release.</p>          code representing the work on PEPs done for OpenPegasus 2.6 and all
 <ol>          subsequent versions.&nbsp; Therefore, a search of the OpenPegasus
   <li><a          Bugzilla base for bugs with the tag for a particular version (ex.&nbsp;
  href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/protected/upreviews/20/1682/PEP209_ExternalInterface2.5.htm">PEP          <a href="http://cvs.rdg.opengroup.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?keywords=2.6.0_APPROVED">2.6.0_APPROVED</a>,
 209</a> - OpenPegaus 2.5 External Interfaces (as of this document          <a href="http://cvs.rdg.opengroup.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?keywords=2.6.1_APPROVED">
 verion of PEP 230, PEP 209 is listed as draft status)<br>            2.6.1_APPROVED</a>, <a href="http://cvs.rdg.opengroup.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?keywords=2.7.0_APPROVED">2.7.0_APPROVED</a>,
   </li>          etc) will yield all changes to the Pegasus CVS tree for that OpenPegasus
   <li><a          release.</p>
  href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/protected/doc.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&amp;gdid=8502">PEP&nbsp;        <p> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Changes for this release (bugs Tagged
 200</a> - OpenPegaus 2.5 Build and Configuration          2.12.0_APPROVED). The link is&nbsp;<a href="http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=2.12.0_APPROVED">
 Option&nbsp; for Selected            Pegasus 2.12.0_APPROVED bug list.</a></p>
 Platforms</li>        <h2><a name="Pegasus Release Control and Version Definition Documentation">Release
   <li>PEP 230 - Pegasus 2.5 Release Notes (This document)</li>  Control
   <li><a            and Version Definition Documentation</a></h2>
  href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/protected/doc.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&amp;gdid=8503">PEP        <p>The OpenPegasus project is controlled largely through the CVS
 227</a> -&nbsp; Pegasus 2.5 Runtime Packaging Definition<br>          repository and a set of documents (PEPs) that serve both as the
   </li>          definition and review mechanism for new and modified Pegasus
   <li><a          functionality and for the definition and documentation of releases.</p>
  href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/protected/doc.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&amp;gdid=8466">PEP        The following documentation defines the characteristics of this Pegasus
 210</a>&nbsp; - OpenPegasus 2.5 SDK Packaging Definition</li>        release. The documents are available&nbsp;in the OpenPegasus CVS
   <li>PEP 235&nbsp; - Pegasus readme.txt for 2.5 (also in the Pegasus        repository. <br>
 source        <ul>
 tree root directory).</li>          <li><b> OpenPegasus Release Definition/Status -No PEP (See Wiki Section
   <li><a              <a href="https://wiki.opengroup.org/pegasus-wiki/doku.php?id=dev:release:2_12_x">OpenPegasus
  href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/protected/revdoc.tpl?CALLER=revdocuments.tpl&amp;grid=1411">PEP  2.12.x
 180</a> - OpenPegasus Release Definition - This PEP is used                Release Status</a>) - <span style="font-weight: normal;">A&nbsp;
 throughout the development of this version as the control point for                section in the Pegasus wiki is used throughout the development of
 functionality that will go into the release and points to all of the                this version as the control point for functionality that will go
 PEPs that represent the Pegasus 2.5 functionality changes.&nbsp; (as of                into the release and points to all of the PEPs that represent the
 this document verion of PEP 230, PEP 180 is listed as draft status)</li>                Pegasus&nbsp; functionality changes for this version of Pegasus</span>.&nbsp;</b></li>
 </ol>          <b> </b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><b>OpenPegasus&nbsp;
 <h2><a name="General Documentation">General Documentation</a></h2>            Build and Configuration Options&nbsp; for Selected Platforms -&nbsp; <span
 <p>The following documentation is available for the this Pegasus              style="font-weight: normal;">In previous versions of Pegasus this
 release:</p>              information was&nbsp; 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</span></big>.</span></b><b>
             <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&nbsp; </span><small
                 style="font-weight: bold;"><font face="Courier New" size="4"><small>pegasus/doc/EnternalInterface.html</small></font></small><span
                 style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></li>
           </b>
           <li><b> OpenPegasus&nbsp; 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>.
                 In previous Pegasus releases this document was made available as s
                 separate Pegasus PEP document rather than in the CVS repository.</span>&nbsp;
               </b></li> <b> </b> <b>
             <li>&nbsp;Pegasus&nbsp; Runtime Packaging Definition -&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: normal;">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. </span>&nbsp;</li>
           </b> <b>
             <li>Pegasus Release Notes -&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>PEP
               364 - <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;"><span style="font-family: monospace;">pegasus/ReleaseNotes.htm</span></big>)</span></li>
           </b>
         </ul>
         <h2><b><a name="General Documentation">General Documentation</a></b></h2>
         <p><b>The following documentation is available for the this Pegasus
             release:</b></p>
 <ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"> <ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><b>Utilities</b> - A          <b>
 combination of help generally available with the -h option for each            <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><b>Utilities</b> - </li>
 command and HTML documentation for most of the tools.<o:p></o:p></li>          </b>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> <b>
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><b>API and&nbsp; usage   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><b>API and&nbsp; usage
 documentation</b> - See the header files and the HTML&nbsp; API                documentation</b> - </li>
 documentation that is on the web site. The best API usage documentation          </b>See the header files and the HTML&nbsp; API documentation that is on
 is the existing utilities and test programs and the examples in the API          the web site. The best API usage documentation is the existing utilities
 documentation.&nbsp; In particular the Common/tests unit tests contain          and test programs and the examples in the API documentation.&nbsp; In
 extensive examples of the use of the Common APIs.</li>          particular the Common/tests unit tests contain extensive examples of the
           use of the Common APIs. <b>
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><b>Building and Debugging   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><b>Building and Debugging
 Providers </b>- Readme.html in the Pegasus Root Directory, API                Providers </b>- </li>
           </b>Readme.html in the Pegasus source tree Root Directory, API
 documentation, and documentation from the Pegasus Technical Workshop 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. <b>
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><b>Building and Debugging   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><b>Building and Debugging
 Clients</b> - API documentation and the documentation on the Pegasus                Clients</b> - </li>
 Technical Workshop which is available on the Pegasus web site.</li>          </b>API documentation and the documentation on the Pegasus Technical
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><b>Compiler operation and          Workshop which is available on the Pegasus web site. <b>
 commands</b> - compiler help (cimmofl -h)</li>            <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><b>PEPs</b> - </li>
   <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><b>PEPs</b> - The          </b>The features of Pegasus that have been installed in this and the
 features of Pegasus that have been installed in this and the previous          previous few versions are defined by Pegasus PEPs that are available on
 few versions are defined by Pegasus PEPs that are available on the          the OpenPegasus web site.&nbsp; While these are the original design
 OpenPegasus web site.&nbsp; While these are the original design  
 documents largely and use in the process of defining and approving the documents largely and use in the process of defining and approving the
 overall characteristics of new functionality, they serve as a guide to 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> </ul>
 &nbsp;        <hr>Licensed to The Open Group (TOG) under one or more contributor license
 <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span        agreements. Refer to the OpenPegasusNOTICE.txt file distributed with this
  style="color: black;">&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></p>        work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. Each
 <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span        contributor licenses this file to you under the OpenPegasus Open Source
  style="color: black;">        License; you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 <hr align="center" color="#009900" noshade="noshade" size="2"        <p>Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
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 VERITAS Software Corporation</font><br>          distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
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 free of        <p>The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
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