svn commit: lorikeet r249 - in trunk/white-papers/dcom: .

jelmer at samba.org jelmer at samba.org
Mon Apr 11 01:34:10 GMT 2005


Author: jelmer
Date: 2005-04-11 01:34:10 +0000 (Mon, 11 Apr 2005)
New Revision: 249

WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=lorikeet&rev=249

Log:
Add some information on WMI, as far as I've understood all this so far;
Changes/additions, especially with regard to WBEM/CIM are welcome.

Modified:
   trunk/white-papers/dcom/dcom.bib
   trunk/white-papers/dcom/dcom.tex


Changeset:
Modified: trunk/white-papers/dcom/dcom.bib
===================================================================
--- trunk/white-papers/dcom/dcom.bib	2005-03-17 11:28:19 UTC (rev 248)
+++ trunk/white-papers/dcom/dcom.bib	2005-04-11 01:34:10 UTC (rev 249)
@@ -95,3 +95,11 @@
 @article{DOTNetCOMInterop,
 	URL = {http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/cominterop.asp}
 }
+
+ at article{CIM,
+	URL = {http://www.dmtf.org/standards/cim/}
+}
+
+ at article{OpenPegasus,
+	URL = {http://www.openpegasus.org/}
+}

Modified: trunk/white-papers/dcom/dcom.tex
===================================================================
--- trunk/white-papers/dcom/dcom.tex	2005-03-17 11:28:19 UTC (rev 248)
+++ trunk/white-papers/dcom/dcom.tex	2005-04-11 01:34:10 UTC (rev 249)
@@ -466,6 +466,21 @@
 	
 \section{Future integration}
 
+\subsection{OpenPegasus: WMI}
+
+WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) is Microsofts implementation of 
+the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) standard from the 
+Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). 
+
+One of the parts of WBEM is the Common Information Model (CIM) \cite{CIM}, 
+which is a standard that allows multiple parties to exchange system 
+management information.
+
+WMI is built on top of DCOM; it looks like implementing WMI will be 
+possible by implementing a thin layer of DCOM classes with 
+OpenPegasus OpenPegasus\cite{OpenPegasus}, an open source implementation 
+of WBEM, on top.
+
 \subsection{Mono}
 
 DCOM is currently mostly a legacy technology, with Microsoft 



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