Pywbem - A WBEM client

Pywbem is a WBEM client, written in pure Python. It supports Python 2 and Python 3.

A WBEM client allows issuing operations to a WBEM server, using the CIM operations over HTTP (CIM-XML) protocol defined in the DMTF standards DSP0200 and DSP0201. The CIM/WBEM infrastructure is used for a wide variety of systems management tasks supported by systems running WBEM servers. See WBEM Standards for more information about WBEM.

This package is based on the idea that a good WBEM client should be easy to use and not necessarily require a large amount of programming knowledge. It is suitable for a large range of tasks from simply poking around to writing web and GUI applications.

The general pywbem web site is: https://pywbem.github.io/pywbem/index.html.

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Functionality
  • 1.2. Installation
  • 1.3. Package version
  • 1.4. Standards conformance
  • 1.5. Deprecation and compatibility policy
  • 1.6. Python namespaces
  • 1.7. Configuration variables
  • 1.8. WBEM servers
• 2. Concepts
  • 2.1. The CIM/WBEM architecture
  • 2.2. The CIM model and CIM objects
  • 2.3. WBEM Operations: Communicating with the WBEM Server
  • 2.4. WBEM indications and subscriptions
  • 2.5. WBEM Management Profiles
• 3. Tutorial
  • 3.1. Table of Jupyter tutorials
  • 3.2. Executing code in the tutorials
• 4. WBEM client library API
  • 4.1. WBEM operations
  • 4.2. CIM objects
  • 4.3. CIM data types
  • 4.4. Conversion functions
  • 4.5. CIM status codes
  • 4.6. Exceptions
  • 4.7. Warnings
  • 4.8. WBEM operation statistics
  • 4.9. WBEM operation logging
  • 4.10. WBEM operation recording
  • 4.11. Mapping between ValueMap and Values qualifiers
  • 4.12. Security considerations
• 5. WBEM server API
  • 5.1. Example
  • 5.2. WBEMServer
• 6. WBEM indication API
  • 6.1. WBEMListener
  • 6.2. WBEMSubscriptionManager
• 7. MOF compiler API
  • 7.1. MOFCompiler Class
  • 7.2. Repository connections
  • 7.3. Exceptions
• 8. WBEM utility commands
  • 8.1. mof_compiler
  • 8.2. wbemcli
• 9. Mock support
  • 9.1. Overview
  • 9.2. Faked WBEM operations
  • 9.3. Building the mock repository
  • 9.4. FakedWBEMConnection
  • 9.5. DMTF CIM schema download support
• 10. Development
  • 10.1. Repository
  • 10.2. Setting up the development environment
  • 10.3. Building the documentation
  • 10.4. Testing
  • 10.5. Testing installed versions of pywbem
  • 10.6. Updating the DMTF MOF Test Schema
  • 10.7. Developing PyWBEM Ipython Documentation Notebooks
  • 10.8. Contributing
  • 10.9. Core Development Team
• 11. Appendix
  • 11.1. Special type names
  • 11.2. Profile advertisement methodologies
  • 11.3. Troubleshooting
  • 11.4. Glossary
  • 11.5. References
• 12. Change log
  • 12.1. pywbem 0.16.0
  • 12.2. pywbem 0.15.0
  • 12.3. pywbem 0.14.6
  • 12.4. pywbem 0.14.5
  • 12.5. pywbem 0.14.4
  • 12.6. pywbem 0.14.3
  • 12.7. pywbem 0.14.2
  • 12.8. pywbem 0.14.1
  • 12.9. pywbem 0.14.0
  • 12.10. pywbem 0.13.0
  • 12.11. pywbem 0.12.0
  • 12.12. pywbem 0.11.0
  • 12.13. pywbem 0.10.0
  • 12.14. pywbem 0.9.0
  • 12.15. pywbem 0.8.4
  • 12.16. pywbem 0.8.3
  • 12.17. pywbem 0.8.2
  • 12.18. pywbem 0.8.1
  • 12.19. pywbem 0.7.0
  • 12.20. pywbem 0.6
  • 12.21. pywbem 0.5
  • 12.22. pywbem 0.4