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. Mapping between ValueMap and Values qualifiers
  • 4.11. Support for PUnit and Units qualifiers
  • 4.12. Security considerations
  • 4.13. Proxy support
• 5. WBEM server library
  • 5.1. Example
  • 5.2. WBEMServer
• 6. WBEM indication listener
  • 6.1. WBEMListener
  • 6.2. Listener exceptions
• 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
• 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. Base classes
  • 12.5. Glossary
  • 12.6. References
• 13. Change log
  • 13.1. pywbem 1.7.3
  • 13.2. pywbem 1.7.2
  • 13.3. pywbem 1.7.1
  • 13.4. pywbem 1.7.0
  • 13.5. pywbem 1.6.0
  • 13.6. pywbem 1.5.0
  • 13.7. pywbem 1.4.0
  • 13.8. pywbem 1.3.0
  • 13.9. pywbem 1.2.0
  • 13.10. pywbem 1.1.0
  • 13.11. pywbem 1.0.0
  • 13.12. pywbem 1.0.0b4
  • 13.13. pywbem 1.0.0b3
  • 13.14. pywbem 1.0.0b2
  • 13.15. pywbem 1.0.0b1
  • 13.16. pywbem 0.17.2
  • 13.17. pywbem 0.17.1
  • 13.18. pywbem 0.17.0
  • 13.19. pywbem 0.16.0
  • 13.20. pywbem 0.15.0
  • 13.21. pywbem 0.14.6
  • 13.22. pywbem 0.14.5
  • 13.23. pywbem 0.14.4
  • 13.24. pywbem 0.14.3
  • 13.25. pywbem 0.14.2
  • 13.26. pywbem 0.14.1
  • 13.27. pywbem 0.14.0
  • 13.28. pywbem 0.13.0
  • 13.29. pywbem 0.12.0
  • 13.30. pywbem 0.11.0
  • 13.31. pywbem 0.10.0
  • 13.32. pywbem 0.9.0
  • 13.33. pywbem 0.8.4
  • 13.34. pywbem 0.8.3
  • 13.35. pywbem 0.8.2
  • 13.36. pywbem 0.8.1
  • 13.37. pywbem 0.7.0
  • 13.38. pywbem 0.6
  • 13.39. pywbem 0.5
  • 13.40. pywbem 0.4
• Index