Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements

[Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>]

On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 06:26:53PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote:
> (Responding as plain text, your email probably got punted from the ML from being HTML)
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> > ...
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> > I'm not sure what you are asking about. Samba does not deal with WMI at all. The state of affairs is 
> > explained at https://powershell.org/2015/04/24/management-information-the-omicimwmimidmtf-dictionary/ 
> > -- old WMI (DCOM/RPC-based) is deprecated, new WMI based on WS-MAN is supported and OMI is the 
> > implementation. We used to have a very limited attemt at writing DCOM stack and nobody worked on
> > it for years so it got removed.
> 
> Thanks!  That was a very interesting read.
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> > Microsoft has already published a MOF parser as part of OMI work: https://github.com/Microsoft/omi/ 
> > under MIT license.
> 
> Unfortunately that's expecting text MOF, not this intermediary compiled format.
> 

I presume which of these to use is the decision of the vendor? Is there a
transition going on from BMOF to Text MOF? Or will both be part of products for
the near term?

I'm trying to understand if BMOF is a legacy thing now, or if it will continue
to be used in new designs.

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Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center