Bernd Zeimetz <be...@bzed.de> writes: > Could you summarize the advantages/disadvantages of sblim-wbemcli over > the python version? Is there a common interface?
Hi, I can't say much about the Python version, because it refuses to work with our storage: $ wbemcli.distrib our.storage.niif.hu -n /root/hpq --no-ssl Connected to http://our.storage.niif.hu >>> ei('DHS_Fan') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<console>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/bin/wbemcli.distrib", line 164, in EnumerateInstances IncludeClassOrigin = IncludeClassOrigin) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/pywbem/cim_operations.py", line 404, in EnumerateInstances **params) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/pywbem/cim_operations.py", line 186, in imethodcall tt = parse_cim(dom_to_tupletree(reply_dom)) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/pywbem/tupleparse.py", line 289, in parse_cim attrs(tt)[CIMVERSION]) NameError: global name 'CIMVERSION' is not defined My Python is weak, but it seems to boil down to pywbem expecting version 2.0. Here it gets <CIM CIMVERSION="2.10" DTDVERSION="2.1.1"> instead. The equivalent SBLIM command is $ wbemcli ei 'http://our.storage.niif.hu:5988/root/hpq:DHS_Fan' and it gives back the requested information. (This storage sports a nonstandard SMI-S implementation, but I doubt that would be responsible for the above.) As you can see, the interface is similar as far as the command names are concerned, but also very different: the Python version is an interactive wrapper exposing the Python interpreter, while sblim-wbemcli is a one shot utility. Also, as pywbem is a library, wbemcli.py looks more like a testing tool, sample usage or proof of concept to me than something meant for production use. When I was looking for a WBEM interface (mostly for monitoring purposes) I was very glad to find a library, which I was expecting to use in our custom monitoring plugins instead of parsing the output of some standalone utility. Unfortunately, it didn't work out. -- Cheers, Feri. _______________________________________________ Python-modules-team mailing list Python-modules-team@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/python-modules-team
