Pywbem - A WBEM client and related utilities, written in pure Python

Pywbem is a WBEM client and WBEM indication listener and provides related WBEM client-side functionality. It is written in pure Python and runs on Python 2 and Python 3.

WBEM is a standardized approach for systems management defined by the DMTF that is used in the industry for a wide variety of systems management tasks. See WBEM Standards for more information. An important use of this approach is the SMI-S standard defined by SNIA for managing storage.

Pywbem 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 web site for all projects of the pywbem family is: https://pywbem.github.io/.

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Functionality
  • 1.2. Supported environments
  • 1.3. Installation
  • 1.4. Package version
  • 1.5. Version dependent features
  • 1.6. Standards conformance
  • 1.7. Deprecation and compatibility policy
  • 1.8. Python namespaces
  • 1.9. Configuration variables
  • 1.10. 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
  • 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. Support for PUnit and Units qualifiers
  • 4.13. Security considerations
  • 4.14. Proxy support
• 5. WBEM server library
  • 5.1. Example
  • 5.2. WBEMServer
• 6. WBEM indication listener
  • 6.1. WBEMListener
• 7. WBEM subscription manager
  • 7.1. WBEMSubscriptionManager
• 8. MOF compiler
  • 8.1. MOFCompiler Class
  • 8.2. Repository connections
  • 8.3. Exceptions
• 9. Mock WBEM server
  • 9.1. Overview
  • 9.2. WBEM operations of a mock WBEM server
  • 9.3. FakedWBEMConnection class
  • 9.4. Building a mocked CIM repository
  • 9.5. Mocking multiple CIM namespaces
  • 9.6. User-defined providers
  • 9.7. Registry for provider dependent files
  • 9.8. Configuration of mocked behavior
  • 9.9. Mocker base classes
• 10. WBEM utility commands
  • 10.1. mof_compiler
• 11. Development
  • 11.1. Repository
  • 11.2. Setting up the development environment
  • 11.3. Building the documentation
  • 11.4. Testing
  • 11.5. Testing from the source archives on Pypi or GitHub
  • 11.6. Testing installed versions of pywbem
  • 11.7. Updating the DMTF MOF Test Schema
  • 11.8. Developing PyWBEM Ipython Documentation Notebooks
  • 11.9. Contributing
  • 11.10. Core Development Team
• 12. Appendix
  • 12.1. Special type names
  • 12.2. Profile advertisement methodologies
  • 12.3. Troubleshooting
  • 12.4. Glossary
  • 12.5. References
• 13. Change log
  • 13.1. Version 1.1.4.dev1