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CMPI Providers in a nutshell |
Common Management Programming Interface (CMPI) Providers in a nutshell |
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Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@de.ibm.com> |
Aug 1st, 2005 |
Nov 14th 2003 |
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Pegasus 2.4 *NEWS* |
Pegasus 2.5 *NEWS* |
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The CMPI header files are being standardized and will be (possibly by the |
The CMPI macro header files (cmpimacs.h) shipped is OpenPegasus specific. This |
time you read this) frozen. However, since the OpenPegasus 2.4 release is |
will change once OpenGroup releases a specification with the macro definitions. |
anticipated prior to the anticipated freezing of the CMPI standard, |
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the OpenPegasus 2.4 release will not provide the CMPI header files as |
The CMPI Function Table (cmpift.h) file and CMPI Data Types (cmpidt.h) file are |
part of the OpenPegasus 2.4 SDK. |
composed from the CMPI v1.0 specification + Technical Corrigenda and are |
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binary compatible with the "historical implementations" and the 1.0 specification |
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augmented with the Technical Corrigenda. |
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They can be found within CVS and the source tarball. Visit |
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http://cvs.opengroup.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/pegasus/src/Pegasus/Provider/CMPI/ to view the CMPI header files. |
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Build CMPI from sources | Build CMPI from sources |
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The Common Manageability Programming Interface (CMPI) has been integrated into | The Common Manageability Programming Interface (CMPI) has been integrated into |
Pegasus as a pluggable provider manager. | Pegasus as a pluggable provider manager. |
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CMPI must be enabled during Pegasus build. |
CMPI is by default enabled on Linux. For other platforms it must be enabled |
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during Pegasus build. |
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For CMPI enablement, set the following environment variables prior to make: | For CMPI enablement, set the following environment variables prior to make: |
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PEGASUS_ENABLE_CMPI_PROVIDER_MANAGER=1 | PEGASUS_ENABLE_CMPI_PROVIDER_MANAGER=1 |
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The packages prefixed by the string sblim-cmpi contain CMPI providers for | The packages prefixed by the string sblim-cmpi contain CMPI providers for |
various classes. See http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/sblim . | various classes. See http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/sblim . |
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Using CMPI with threads |
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CMPI provides API functions for low-level thread, mutex and conditional constructs. |
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Hence you can compile your provider without needing to link to pthread or other |
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threading library. |
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However, the developer is responsible for memory management of these constructs and |
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as well of exiting the threads before the cleanup function is exited. If this is not |
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done, the thread will be forcefully terminated. This can have the nasty consequence of |
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hanging CIMServer, or bringing down the CIMServer, or just the Out-of-Process Provider |
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Agent if you run OpenPegasus with 'run-as-requester' configuration flag turned on. |
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Please refer to the Admin Guide or the readme files for more details about this flag. |
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Using CQL with CMPI | Using CQL with CMPI |
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