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

align="center">Pegasus

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

<span

style="color: black;">

PEP #: 230

Title: Release

Notes for OpenPegasus 2.5

Version: 1.8

Created: <st1:date

year="2004" day="23" month="3">1 April 2005</st1:date>

Authors: Warren

Grunbok, Karl Schopmeyer

Status:  draft

Version History:

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<span

style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> 1.0<o:p></o:p>

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<span

style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"><o:p>  1,April

2005

</o:p>

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<span

style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"><o:p>Warren Grunbok

</o:p>

</td>

<span

style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Initial

Submission<o:p>

</o:p>

</td>

</tr>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt;" align="center">26, June 2005

</td>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">Warren Grunbok

</td>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt;">revisions based on Comments

</td>

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<td style="vertical-align: top;">1.2

</td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;">22, July 2005

</td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;">Warren Grunbok

</td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;">fixed some broken links, added

security notes.

</td>

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<td style="vertical-align: top;">1.3

</td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;">23, Aug 2005

</td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;">Warren Grunbok

</td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;">Revisions based on comments

</td>

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<td style="vertical-align: top;">1.4

</td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;">30.Aug 2005

</td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;">Warren Grunbok

</td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;">More revisions based on Aug 26

review in Architecture meeting

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<td style="vertical-align: top;">1.5

</td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;">12, Sept 2005

</td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;">Warren Grunbok

</td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;">Minor comment updates from 1.4

version  (balloted version)

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<td style="vertical-align: top;">1.6

</td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;">14,Sept 2005

</td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;">Warren Grunbok

</td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;">additional comments from review

</td>

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<td style="vertical-align: top;">1.7

</td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;">20, Sept 2005

</td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;">Warren Grunbok

</td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;">Added Solaris back in, corrected

Provider security statement, and clarified Solaris support for 2.5

</td>

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<td style="vertical-align: top;">1.8

</td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;">21, Sept 2005

</td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;">Warren Grunbok

</td>

<td style="vertical-align: top;">Clarified SLP enablement

Paragraph and correction of Power on Linux in platform table

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Abstract: This document defines the release notes for the 2.5

version of the Pegasus CIM Server. <span

style="font-size: 9pt;"><a

href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/protected/doc_edit.tpl?grid=632&file=Pegasus2_3_1ReleaseNotes.html&tag=35"

target="_self">

</a>

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<o:p> Contents

</o: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</h2>

This release is available in a number of forms including:

<ul>

<li>Source release in both ZIP and TAR formats. These can be

downloaded from the OpenPegasus Web

site at <a

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

<li>OpenPegasus 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&ggid=392">release

snapshots page</a>.</li>

</ul>

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

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

WEB site</a>.

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

Pegasus source

tree.

Instructions for building the Linux RPMs: <span

style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">

</>

<ol>

<li>Download

tog-pegasus-2.5.0-1.src.rpm. </li>

<li>rpm

-ih tog-pegasus-2.5.0-1.src.rpm </li>

<li>

<span

class="norm">Build

the rpms:

</li>

</ol>

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<td

style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Distro</td>

<td

style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Command

</td>

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<tr>

<td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">RHEL3

</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</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">RHEL4

</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</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">SLES 9

</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</td>

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<li style="font-weight: bold;">After

the build the rpms will be in the

following locations:</li>

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<td

style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Distro

</td>

<td

style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Location

of RPMs after the build is complete

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">RHEL3

</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: "times new roman";"><span

style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span

class="norm">     </td>

</tr>

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<td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">RHEL4

</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.</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">SLES9

</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.</td>

</tr>

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</ol>

<h2><a name="Functionality_of_This_Release"></a><span

style="color: black;">Functionality of This Release</h2>

New for the Pegasus 2.5 release is a Feature Maturity Dashboard. 

This document shows the Pegasus users and developers the maturity of

the various features found in Pegasus using a simple color coded

key.  That document can be found here:  <a

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

Maturity Link</a>

The overall level of functionality in the Pegasus environment

effective with

this release is as follows:

<h3>CIM Server Functionality</h3>

The following paragraphs list the functions in this release.

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.  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  and interfaces

are conditionally compiled with special environment variables. <a

href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/protected/doc.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&gdid=8502"><span

style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span

style="text-decoration: underline;">PEP 200 </a>

provides more detailed information on how to enable

functionality that is conditionally compiled in this release.

<h4>CIM Operations over HTTP support</h4>

<ol>

<li>Class Operations (getClass, <span

class="SpellE">deleteClass, modifyClass,

enumerateClass, enumerateClassNames)</li>

<li>Qualifier Operations (getQualifier, setQualifier,

deleteQualifier) </li>

<li>Instance Operations (getInstance, <span

class="SpellE">deleteInstance, modifyInstance,

enumerateInstance, <span

class="SpellE">enumerateInstanceNames, getProperty,

setProperty)</li>

<li>Association Operations (references, referencenames,

associators, associatornames)</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.  Additional tests have been added in 2.5 for ExecQuery.

</li>

</ol>

</blockquote>

</div>

<h4>Indications</h4>

<ul>

<li>Process indications - Process indications are operational in

the

Server.  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

</ul>

<h4>Indication Listener</h4>

The generic components for a CIM Listener and a

listener API are operational.  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.

Pegasus 2.5

includes a new standalone listener that is separate

from the current standalone CIMListener and the ExportServer listener

in the CIM server.

The use model that this listener fits is the following:

<ul>

<li> The listener may be packaged as

part of the CIMOM or it may be packaged independently as part of

another application. </li>

<li> 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>

<span

style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <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.  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</a> <span

style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> for

details.

<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.

Two new configuration properties were added to control object

normalization.

<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.

</li>

</ol>

<h4>Embedded Object support</h4>

Pegasus 2.5 now provides embedded object support. The proposed solution

is restricted to the following:

The only representation for embedded objects supported by this

PEP is CIM-XML.

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.  Embedded instances will also carry the

EmbeddedObject attribute with

the value "object", as specified by CR Interop-00217.001.

</blockquote>

<h4>Query Language</h4>

The query language today is based on WQL and is implemented and

used for filters and in 2.4 for execQuery.

CQL Stage 1 has been included for Pegasus 2.5.  PEPs 138,

193, 205 combine to describe the function submitted.

<h4>Schema Repository</h4>

By default, Pegasus uses an XML-based

schema repository. A binary encoding option is also available.<span

style="font-family: "times new roman";">

To use the binary encoding feature a new configuration

properties was

added:

enableBinaryRepository (true|false) - Enables

disables binary repository.

<div style="margin-left: 40px;"> In addition to the binary

repository, the compressed repository

functionality has

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.

Note:  <span

class="norm">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

style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">See bugzilla 3642 for details.

</div>

<h4>Compressed Repository</h4>

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

</div>

<h4>Instance Repository</h4>

The

Pegasus schema repository may also be configured to hold instance

data.  <font

style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Although instances may be place in the

repository

it was not designed as a

high volume data store.

<h4>Security Considerations

</h4>

OpenPegasus 2.5 (and

prior) contains several mechanisms to perform authorization, but none

of these authorization checks are performed by default.

By registering any provider which fails to do appropriate authorization

checks, the consequences may include information leakage, data

corruption, or unintended elevation of privilege. Please ensure that

one of the following mechanisms is used to ensure appropriate access to

your systems and data:

1. Only install/register providers which perform authorization

appropriate for your environment.

<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"

color="RED">a. For providers, this may include registering to

'Run-as-requestor' (not available prior to Pegasus 2.5) and/or

performing authorization checks within the provider.

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.

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.

</div>

2. Restrict users with

access to Pegasus to a specific authorized user group of trusted

individuals.

3. Namespace authorization is also available.

For administration issues please refer to

the SSL Admin Guide found at:   pegasus/doc/PegasusSSLGuidelines.htm

<h4>Server Security</h4>

<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 OpenSSL

libraries. Pegasus does not provide the OpenSSL

libraries but SSL can be used on any platform supported by <span

class="SpellE">OpenSSL.  Minimum level known to work

is  0.9.6c .   This release of Pegasus was tested with

0.9.6k.  See <a

href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/uploads/40/Application%20Data/Microsoft/Word/www.openssl.org">openssl.org</a>

for OpenSSL release information<o:p>.</o:p></li>

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">SSL levels

SSLv3

and TLSv1 by default. SSLv2 is

disabled by default and only enabled by a compile time option.

See<a

href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/protected/doc.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&gdid=8502">

PEP 200</a> for details on

configuration.

</li>

</ol>

<h4>Client Security<span

style="font-style: italic;"></h4>

Certificate management 

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.

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.  See the SSL guide found in the /pegasus/doc directory for

more details on client security.

Note: <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.

<h4>Platform Management Functions</h4>

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Configuration through

the defined configuration parameters (cimconfig) and server command

line options.<font

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

</o:p></li>

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Operation statistics

capture using the <font

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

the DMTF Interop model. This

function is considered alpha quality and conditionally compiled.

</li>

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Multiple

pluggable provider managers.  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>SLP Discovery</h4>

SLP support is included but is conditionally compiled in or out on

a platform basis. <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.  PEGASUS_DISABLE_SLP and

PEGASUS_ENABLE_SLP are the environment variables that control inclusion

of this feature.  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  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).

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.

<h4>Provider Managers</h4>

Pegasus is designed to support multiple Provider Managers to allow

multiple provider interfaces to the CIMOM.  The two default

provider managers are the Pegasus C++ Interface and Common

Manageability Programming Interface (CMPI) Interface.

<h5>CMPI C interface Provider Manager<o:p></o:p></h5>

Pegasus 2.5 includes

a provider manager for the CMPI C interfaces. This C interface is the

result of a project by the IBM SBLIM team (see 

http://sblim.sourceforge.net) and is written to the Common

Manageability Programming Interface, which is an OpenGroup standard.

The CMPI

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.  <span

style="font-family: "times new roman";">The

ability for CMPI providers to do user authorization is now available in

Pegasus 2.5.

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.

<h5>JMPI Java Interface Provider Manager</h5>

Pegasus includes an experimental provider manager for Java

provider interfaces based on the SNIA provider interface

definitions.  This provider manager is  considered alpha

quality and is not compiled in the default build.   See

readme.jmpi in the Pegasus source root directory for more information.

</blockquote>

<h3>    Providers</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.

Administrators should check the providers to

ensure that the provider vendor

has made use of available authorization capability.

</div>

There are a number of providers available

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

in the Pegasus release.

the release.

This includes providers in the following categories:

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

<h4>Pegasus Internal Providers</h4>

here</a>.

Pegasus provides a set of "internal" providers that have direct

<span

access to the CIMOM for information and provide information and

style='color:black'>

services to support the CIMOM and its administration.    The

providers in this category are mostly defined in the directory

src/pegasus/controlproviders and include support for the following

classes:

<ul>

<li>DMTF Interop classes including __Namespace,  <span

class="SpellE">CIM_Namespace, CIM_ObjectManager,

CIM_CommunicationMechanism, and

CIMOMStatistics.</li>

</ul>

<h4>CMPI Remote</h4>

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.

<h4>Generic Providers</h4>

Generic OperatingSystem provider. See

the

directory src/Providers/generic.

<h4>Test/Sample Providers</h4>

See the directories src/Providers/TestProviders

and src/Providers/Sample for more

information about test and

sample providers.

<h4>Managed System Providers</h4>

ComputerSystem, DNSAdmin,

DNSService, Operating System, Process,

Processor. For

more information on these providers see the documentation for each

provider in

the directory src/Providers/ManagedSystem

<h4>Server Statistics

</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>

</h4>

<h4>SLP Provider</h4>

This provider acts as the definer of

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)

</blockquote>

<h3>CIM_Schema</h3>

The default CIM_Schema loaded with this

release is

the DMTF CIM 2.9, Final release.  In addition, Pegasus includes

a number of

local classes defined for Pegasus.  These are defined in the

pegasus/Schemas

directory.   There are also a

number of older schema available in the CVS.

The mechanism to install other schemas than the default is defined

in the mak/config.mak

NOTE: The CIM 2.5 schema is

maintained in the

CVS repository because it remains the basis for parts of the Pegasus

test

environment.

<h3>Pegasus MOF Compilers</h3>

Pegasus implements a MOF compiler that can operate either at the

client

interface to the Pegasus CIM Server (cimmof)

or directly interfacing with a CIM

repository (cimmofl).

The direct interface compiler is used primarily to provide an

initial

class/instance repository. WARNING:

the use of cimmofl

to manipulate instances in the repository bypasses any provider that is

registered to serve these  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.  Use of cimmofl in general is

discouraged and particularly  to manipulate

instances served by a registered providers (ex. Provider registration).

<h3>Client Tools</h3>

Lightweight statistics are now implemented for

the

client. The client statistics surfaces the elapsed time spent in the

client,

and the

elapsed time spent on the network between client and server.

<h3>Pegasus CIM Server Administration</h3>

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">cimuser

- Manage Pegasus CIM Server Users.<o:p></o:p></li>

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">cimconfig

- Manage the Pegasus CIM Server configuration parameters.<o:p></o:p></li>

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">cimauth

- Manage the CIM Server authorization characteristics. Today this is

authorizing users to namespaces.<o:p></o:p></li>

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">cimprovider

- Manage information about the providers .</li>

</ol>

Server admin

note:

<div style="margin-left: 40px;">The default behavior for determining

the CIM server's HTTP and HTTPS ports has changed.  In previous

releases, any value in /etc/services would override a port explicitly

specified in the configuration.  The new order for determining the

CIM server's HTTP and HTTPS ports is as follows:

1) An explicitly specified port value takes precedence over any other

values.

</div>

<div style="margin-left: 40px;">2) If no port is specified, the value

in /etc/services is used.

3) If no value is specified in /etc/services, the default WBEM port is

used.

</div>

<h3>Information client tools</h3>

These tools provide information on the objects managed by the server.

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">tomof

- 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;">dnsinfo

- Generate a set of standard information on the Domain

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;">ipinfo

- Generates a set of standard information from the Network

Schema.  Information generated varies by system because of the

level of provider support.<o:p></o:p></li>

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">osinfo

- 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>Test support Tools</h3>

<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.        <o:p></o:p></li>

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">The Pegasus test suite

(see the pegasus/tests directory)<o:p></o:p></li>

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">TestClient

- Basic client for overall platform operation testing. <o:p></o:p></li>

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">wbemexec

- Test tool that sends/receives XML from XML input.<o:p></o:p></li>

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">CLI - Command line

interface for Client commands.<o:p></o:p></li>

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

benchmark test environment is provided which includes both a client and

provider component. See src/clients/benchmarkTest

for more information.<o:p></o:p></li>

</ol>

<h3>Pegasus Interface APIs</h3>

Details of the Pegasus public interfaces for this release are listed

in PEP 209

available from the web site(<a

href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/uploads/40/Administrator/My%20Documents/processes/www.openpegasus.org">www.openpegasus.org</a>).

That document is the authorative source

for the list of publicly supported Pegasus APIs.   The Client

and Provider API were originally frozen at the 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.  There have been extensions and new

interfaces added for this release and these are marked as experimental.

  The Pegasus public

interfaces includes the following major functions

<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>

In addition, there are other client interfaces which are not today

in the public SDK including:

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style=""

lang="DA">CIM Listener APIs</li>

<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.</li>

<ul>

<li>New CIM Listener now provides selective

indication delivery.

</li>

<li>New CIM Listener

keeps all consumer libraries in memory for the duration of its

execution.

</li>

<li>New CIM Listener

is now pluggable.

</li>

<li>New CIM Listener

now provides reliable indication delivery.</li>

</ul>

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">SLP

Client (User Agent) APIs which are extensions to the Client APIs</li>

</ol>

<o:p> </o:p>

The APIs are

documented in

their respective header files and  in HTML documentation based on

the information

in the header files extracted with the doc++ tool will be available on

the

OpenPegasus web site.

<o:p></o:p>

<h3>WMI Mapper</h3>

The WBEM to WMI Mapper 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

XML/CIM and returns the results to the client. WMI Mapper

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 Mapper

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 runs as a service, logged on using an

account with

administrative rights (which has all access to WMI data). Because of

this, the

WMI Mapper 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 Mapper

MUST

contain user credentials.

<h3>Indication Handlers</h3>

System Log Indication Handler

<div style="margin-left: 40px;">The SysLog Indication Handler is a new

for 2.5

type of Indication Handler which allows CIM Indications to be delivered

to the system syslog file. It has following features:

</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.

</li>

</ul>

Email Indicaiton Handler

<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.   See <a

href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/uploads/40/7166/PEP207-EmailIndicationHandler.htm">PEP

207</a>  for details.

</div>

<ol>

</ol>

<h2><a name="Relationship_to_CIMWBEM_Standards"></a>Relationship to

CIM/WBEM Standards</h2>

Pegasus was designed and implemented to comply with the DMTF

specifications The following table defines the level of the DMTF

specifications which which Pegasus conforms today.

<tbody>

<tr>

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

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

</tr>

<tr>

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

<td width="33%">Version 2.2 with Addendum</td>

</tr>

<tr>

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

<td width="33%">1.1, final, 6  January 2002</td>

</tr>

<tr>

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

<td width="33%">2.1, preliminary, May 2, 2002</td>

</tr>

<tr>

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

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

</tr>

<tr>

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

</tr>

<tr>

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

<td width="33%">2.9 Final, Jan. 2005</td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

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

Platforms</a></h2>

Each Pegasus release lists as 'active' platforms those

hardware/software platforms that have recognized ports for the Pegasus

code

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

regularly document issues and/or fix defects as the Pegasus

code base is changed. 

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

a group

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

Pegasus cannot be

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

responsibility of the entity that packages and/or compiles OpenPegasus

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

bugzilla database for a list of relevant defects that affect their

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

Pegasus release are:

<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 302.25pt;" border="1"

cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" height="409" width="504">

<tbody>

<td

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" width="211">

Platform and

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

</td>

<td

height="26" width="289">

Compilers<span

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

</td>

</tr>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" height="25"

width="211">

HP-UX<o:p></o:p>

</td>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 173.25pt;" height="25"

width="289">

HP <span

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

</td>

</tr>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" height="25"

width="211">

<span

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

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

</td>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 173.25pt;" height="25"

width="289">

<span

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

</td>

</tr>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" height="25"

width="211">

<span

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

</td>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 173.25pt;" height="25"

width="289">

<span

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

</td>

</tr>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" height="25"

width="211">

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

</td>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 173.25pt;" height="25"

width="289">

<span

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

</td>

</tr>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" height="25"

width="211">

Linux IA-32<o:p></o:p>

</td>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 173.25pt;" height="25"

width="289">

<span

style="color: black;">gcc

(versions 2.9x and 3.xx)<o:p></o:p>

</td>

</tr>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" height="91"

width="211">

Windows 2000<o:p></o:p>

</td>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 173.25pt;" height="91"

width="289">

Microsoft

Visual C++ Ver 6 and Microsoft .Net compiler Version.   <span

style="color: black;">Works on VC .NET 2003 (aka

v7.1)<o:p></o:p>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" height="69"

width="211">

Windows XP<o:p></o:p>

</td>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 173.25pt;" height="69"

width="289">

Microsoft

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

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

</td>

</tr>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" height="43"

width="211"> MacOS version 10.2 and higher</td>

<td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 173.25pt;" height="43"

width="289"> gcc 3.3</td>

</tr>

<tr>

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

</big></td>

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

style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="RED">HP C++ V6.5-042 for OpenVMS

Alpha and above</big> </td>

</tr>

<tr>

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

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

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

style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">HP C++ V7.1-011 on OpenVMS IA64 and above</big>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

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

color="RED">Solaris 8

* See below for additional info

</big></td>

</td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

Solaris:  Solaris testing

began late in the 2.5 release cycle, thus has not been thoroughly

tested.  In order for Pegasus 2.5 to function properly on that

platform, changes documented in OpenPegasus Bugzilla 4179  must be

applied.

<h2>Platform patches</h2>

The following is a list of platform

patches Pegasus requires.

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

2.1 needs the update to fix Red Hat Bugzilla 98815.

</div>

Further information regarding Pegasus support on IBM platforms can

found at: <a

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

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

Further information regarding Pegasus support on HP platforms can be

found at:

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

<o:p>

</o:p>

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

DMTF Specifications</a></h2>

It is a major goal

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

specifications.  However, today there are a number of known

differences. 

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

<ol>

<li>Provider Registration - Pegasus supports registration

through a set of Pegasus Provider registration classes rather than

support the DMTF defined Provider Qualifier. Pegasus will not support

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

provider registration.</li>

<li> Indications -Today Pegasus supports process

indications but does not

include any specific support for lifecycle indications.</li>

<li>

<font

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

option on Instance Operations

The DMTF specifications are unclear regarding the inclusion of

qualifiers on

CIM instances.  Some CIM Client implementations expect instances

returned

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

definition (such as KEY qualifiers on properties).   Pegasus

today expects the provider to complete the qualifiers on instances in

accordance with the specification and generally the interpretation is

that Pegasus applies class level qualifiers when the includeInstance

parameter is supplied on instance operations.  However, Pegasus

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

should NOT depend on Pegasus accurately honoring the includeQualifier

parameter for instance operations.  In the future it is expected

that Pegasus will deprecate the use of qualifiers on instance

operations completely.

</li>

<li>LocalOnly option on instance

Operations - With the 1.1 version of Specification for CIM

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

GetInstance and 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>

CIM MOF compiler function for

instance aliasing - The Pegasus MOF compiler does not today support

this function.  This function is planned for a future version.

</li>

<li>

MultiRequest Oprations - Pegasus

does not support the DMTF defined MultiRequest Operation option.

</li>

<li>

MOFCompiler namespace pragma - The

Pegasus compiler does not support the namespace pragma.

</li>

</ol>

<h2><a name="Changes in This Release">Changes in This Release</a></h2>

The development and release of each version of Pegasus is defined

and

controlled through Pegasus PEP documents.  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.

In general, the areas of development for this release were:

Addition of CQL

stage 1 support

</li>

Refactoring of

Object Normalizer function to improve performance.

</li>

Out of Process

Provider user level request.

</li>

Embedded Object

support.

</li>

Command Line

Utilities

</li>

CIMDateTime

enhancements

</li>

Completion of

AutoPtr enhancements.

</li>

Certificate

management and user-based certificate authentication

</li>

Completion of HTTP

chunking. 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.

</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>

The complete set of PEPs defined for

this release is defined in PEP 180.

<h2><a name="PEGASUS Bugs">Pegasus defects

</a></h2>

The Pegasus bugzilla database documents any defects found in Pegasus

and  is available through the following link:  <a

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

database</a>.

<h2><a

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

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

The Pegasus project is controlled largely through a set of documents

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

modified Pegasus functionality and for the definition and documentation

of releases.

Specifically the following PEPs define the characteristics of this

Pegasus release.

<ol>

<li><a

href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/protected/upreviews/20/1682/PEP209_ExternalInterface2.5.htm">PEP

209</a> - OpenPegaus 2.5 External Interfaces (as of this document

verion of PEP 230, PEP 209 is listed as draft status)

</li>

<li><a

href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/protected/doc.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&gdid=8502">PEP 

200</a> - OpenPegaus 2.5 Build and Configuration

Option  for Selected

Platforms</li>

<li>PEP 230 - Pegasus 2.5 Release Notes (This document)</li>

<li><a

href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/protected/doc.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&gdid=8503">PEP

227</a> -  Pegasus 2.5 Runtime Packaging Definition

</li>

<li><a

href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/protected/doc.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&gdid=8466">PEP

210</a>  - OpenPegasus 2.5 SDK Packaging Definition</li>

<li>PEP 235  - Pegasus readme.txt for 2.5 (also in the Pegasus

source

tree root directory).</li>

<li><a

href="http://www.openpegasus.org/pp/protected/revdoc.tpl?CALLER=revdocuments.tpl&grid=1411">PEP

180</a> - OpenPegasus Release Definition - This PEP is used

throughout the development of this version as the control point for

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

PEPs that represent the Pegasus 2.5 functionality changes.  (as of

this document verion of PEP 230, PEP 180 is listed as draft status)</li>

</ol>

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

The following documentation is available for the this Pegasus

release:

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

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

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

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

documentation - See the header files and the HTML  API

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

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

documentation.  In particular the Common/tests unit tests contain

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

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

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

documentation, and documentation from the Pegasus Technical Workshop

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

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

Clients - API documentation and the documentation on the Pegasus

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

<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;">Compiler operation and

commands - compiler help (cimmofl -h)</li>

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

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

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

OpenPegasus web site.  While these are the original design

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

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

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

</ul>

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