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PWG WIMS-CIM WG Status

Rick Landau, DellPWG F2F MeetingPhoenix,AZ16-18 April 2008

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Done with the Bulk of Editing

• CRs adopted: 36• All changes will be in CIM Schema v2.19• Current state updated in the wiki

http://pwg-wiki.wikispaces.com/DMTF+CIM+Core+Schema+Change+Requests

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Final Model of Printer Device

Printer

PrinterSettingData(IsCurrent = true)

RecordLog(See Record Log Profile)

UseOfLog

PrinterComponent

PrintInputTray

PrintOutputTray

PrintInterlock

PrintMarker

PrintSupply

PrintChannel

PrintInterpreter

LogManagesRecord

AssociatedPrintSupply

ElementSettingData

1

1

1..*

1..*

1..*

1..*

1..*

1

*

PrintAlertRecord(See Record Log Profile)

1 1

1..*

1

Printer Components

PrintMediaPath1..*

*

AssociatedPrintInterpreter

*

0..2

1

PrintFinisher

ConcreteComponent

AssociatedPrintSupply

1

*

*

*

Dependency

Dependency

**

*

*

*

v14 20071210 RBL

not done,may never be

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Look at Final Classes

• Major surgery on CIM_Printer• Properties removed

• PaperSizesSupported, CurrentPaperType, CurrentLanguage, CurrentMimeType, Capabilities, CapabilityDescription, DefaultCapabilities, CurrentCapabilities, HorizontalResolution, VerticalResolution, MarkingTechnology

• Properties added• CurrentOperator, ServicePerson, SerialNumber,

CriticalAlerts, AllAlerts, ConsoleDisabled, ConsoleNaturalLanguage, ConsoleDisplayBufferText

• Properties to be removed later• MaxCopies, DefaultCopies, MaxNumberUp,

DefaultNumberUp, MaxSizeSupported • Descriptions improved

• Printer (class), PrinterStatus, PrinterDetectedErrorState

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Minor Repairs on other Classes

• PrintInputTray• PrintOutputTray• PrintFinisher• PrintSupply• PrinterElement• PrinterComponent

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Status of Printer Classes

• All the new classes are Experimental• In the CIM Schema v2.nn Experimental branch• Experimental classes may change without notice in

incompatible ways, though this is rare, so implementers beware

• E.g., we just changed a few property names

• Want classes to go final as quickly as possible• Need TWO claims of implementation to promote

the classes to the v2.nn Final branch• One prototype in the works soon• NEED ONE MORE IMPLEMENTATION

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Prototyping

• Goal: Build a CIM Provider that populates CIM properties for a network printer

• Method: Proxy from SNMP to CIM• Should be able to find content for all properties

if the network printer has a good PrinterMIB implementation

• Plus MIB-2 and HostResources, of course

• We think we transcribed the semantics correctly. This is the test.

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CIM Server Model

CIMOM

CIM Provider

Instrumentation

Hardware

Management application

logical mapping from hardware modelto CIM data model

physical mapping of hardware

CIM Object Manager, aggregation layer

access protocol(s), e.g., WS-Management"CIM Server"

management client

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Structure of Proxy Provider - 1

Network Printer

SNMP Printer MIB

SNMP access

Actions

Dictionary

Parse Request Generate XML

Magic Cloud

CIMOM

CIM Browser Proto Mgt Ap

some computer on the network

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Structure of Proxy Provider - 2

Network Printer

SNMP Printer MIB

SNMP access

Actions

Dictionary

Parse Request Generate XML

Magic Cloud

CIMOM

CIM Browser Proto Mgt Ap

Dell Secret Sauce

Windows WMI

DCOM WS-Man

XML

maybe publishablealgorithm

Perl/Python

snmpget CLI

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What Can be Made Public?

• Maybe translation algorithms from SNMP vars to CIM properties

• Maybe the XML format output from this translation

• Both guaranteed to be not pretty but possibly instructive

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How to Test?

• CIM Browser application, free from MS • WMI Tools kit on MSDN

• WMI CIM Studio• WMI Object Browser

• Shows classes and instances in WMI• Examine root Printer instance, associations, and

associated instances• May be able to script WMI CLI tools for ease of testing.

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An Opportunity for Fame and Fortune!

• Someone want to write a WS-Man ap?• Be the first kid on your block to manage a printer

through a modern web service!• Proof point requires only a simple application

• Enumerate all instances of all the related classes and print the returned XML

• Can't be more than a couple hundred lines of VB or Perl on top of WinRM CLI or .NET

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Next CIM-Related Activities

• Add statistics class(es) for counters derived from the Counter MIB and abstract spec

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Future

• Write a Network Printer Profile• Network printer is a network computer system that

includes a Printer device• Structured as an instance of CIM_ComputerSystem plus

a pile of associated devices and services• Specify what classes and properties are mandatory?• Specify what other profiles must or should be

implemented?

• Later: • Define CIM device alerts for printers• Update the PrintService and PrintJob classes based on

IPP and Semantic Model