Investigation: Analyze cimcli and SBLIM's wbemcli against pywbemcli

[andy-maier]

Purpose of this exercise is to figure out whether anything reasonable could be added to pywbemcli.

This issue is done when the investigation is complete. We would then open additional issues for implementing any identified functionality.

[andy-maier]

We agreed that:

• Karl will investigate OpenPegasus cimcli
• Andy will investigate SBLIM wbemcli

[andy-maier]

Here is my analysis of SBLIM wbemcli, version 1.6.3 (https://sourceforge.net/projects/sblim/):

• CIM operation support:
  • It supports all CIM operations except pull operations and execquery.
  • It supports the deprecated GetProperty and SetProperty operations.
• CIM-XML / HTTP Protocol support:
  • Supports http and https.
  • With https, it supports CA-certs for server certificate versification, and client cert/key file for mutual TLS.
• Special options:
  • -dx: Display the CIM-XML response
  • -dr: Put curly braces around references to better see them in CIM-XML output
  • -nl: Start a new line for every property returned
  • -t: Append array ([]), reference (&) and key property (#) indicators to property names
  • -cte: Enable support for chunked responses from CIMOM

My summary is:

• It supports a few options to help understanding responses, but that is mainly tied to the fact that it displays CIM-XML. No need to add support for any of that, IMO.
• It supports chunked responses, but requires users to enable that. That is supported in pywbem automatically, at the level of the requests package.

Bottom line: Nothing to do.

Attached is the man output: wbemcli.1.txt

[andy-maier]

We discussed this in our call today and decided to move this issue into the next release.