Heidi Eckhart wrote:
This is very close to what the "Provider" qualifier is. Section 2.5.3 "Optional Qualifiers" of DMTF's DSP0004 "CIM Infrastructure Specification" v2.3 Final describes it as following:
The optional qualifiers listed in this table address situations that are not common to all CIM-compliant implementations. Thus, CIM-compliant implementations can ignore optional qualifiers since they are not required to interpret or understand these qualifiers. These are provided in the specification to avoid random user-defined qualifiers for these recurring situations. ... PROVIDER: An implementation specific handle to the instrumentation that populates those elements in the schemas that refer to dynamic data. ...
OpenWbem makes use of the optional "Provider" qualifier, while Pegasus and sfcb ignore the qualifier and have their own approach to register providers. That's why we also need the provider_register script and the registration files.
Ah, I see. It wasn't clear to me at first what this qualifier was being used for. I get it now though, thanks. =) -- Kaitlin Rupert IBM Linux Technology Center karupert@us.ibm.com