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All About CIM/WBEM - A Starting Point


Contents

CIM Driving Organizations

  • DMTF - Distributed Management Task Force

CIM Specs and Standards

  • DMTF Standards - Links to CIM/WBEM standards as well as Management Initiatives such as SMASH/DASH/CDM

Tutorials / Introductions

CIM Servers / CIMOMs

Technically, a CIM Server is a server/service that responds to CIM requests, and a CIMOM is a CIM Object Manager. In reality, they are usually fused into one entity.

There are several popular/common CIM Servers:

Development Communities / Projects

  • OMC (You are here) - providers, clients, tools, etc
  • SBLIM - providers, clients, tools, etc
  • PyWBEM - python-based client api, browser
  • OpenDRIM - ???

Client Libraries

Most CIM Servers also have client libraries as part of their offerings... see CIM Servers section above Additional client libraries

  • PyWBEM Python-based CIM client

Browsers

Provider Development

Testing

  • PyWBEM is great for testing CIM providers

Initiatives


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  • OMC Home - Quickly find out what the OMC project is all about.
  • OMC Roadmap - Where is the OMC project going?
  • Participate in OMC - Find out how to participate in the OMC project: contribute code, test, bugs, tasks
  • How the Project Works - Find out about project administration, how to gain access to commit code changes, etc.
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