[Xen-cim] Re: SMASH and CLP work now available

[Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Gareth S Bestor wrote:
> its going to be very important for us - for SBLIM, and not just for 
> Xen - to get these SMASH providers ported to CMPI. I'm hoping we can 
> throw some of our bodies on it, and I'm asking about it, but cannot 
> make any promises.
I have some question related to this.  Handle it tomorrow.

> I'd also like to see SMASH CLP support for doing the equivalent of 
> 'xm' for better command-line management of Xen thru the CIM 
> interfaces; wbemcli and CLI are pretty crude and unintuitive...
Yeah, I talked to the developer of CLP a while back about this.  It 
sounds like most of the work will be defining the extensions to clp 
syntax for virt stuff - extending the tool then is automated IIRC.  
Don't know what this entails as I'm not familiar with the CLP spec.
> Since most of the assoc providers use upcalls to get endpoint data, it 
> should be possible to directly use these SMASH providers easily, 
> though it would restrict folks to using OpenWBEM for their resident 
> CIMOM till everything is ported to CMPI. Also, I really want to try 
> using sfcb, which is CMPI only.
The SMASH providers use config files to describe behavior on a given 
installation.  E.g. if Dell sells SLES10 on some hardware that they have 
"better" instrumentation for, then they can insert their custom provider 
code high up in the data collection path - overriding data collected by 
lower-layer, more generic instrumentation.  Perhaps we could use a 
similar technique to define how the providers use host instrumentation 
on a given installation.  This is one of the items I wanted to discuss 
tomorrow :-).
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Some context for the list:
Novell released implementations of various SMASH profiles and Command 
Line Protocol (CLP) spec this week.
http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/OMC

Jim


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