Heidi Eckhart wrote:
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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. =)
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Kaitlin Rupert
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