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Introducing the CIMOM Service
for Lutris EAS 4

Download the Scheduler Service, SMS Service and CIMOM Service Technology Previews today from www.lutris.com/downloads/

The Lutris EAS CIMOM Service is a platform service that adds CIMOM (Common Information Model Object Manager) capabilities to Lutris EAS. For the CIMOM Tech Preview, Lutris is incorporating code from the http://wbemservices.sourceforge.net/ project, as well as code from the http://www.snia.org/ CIMOM project, whose original contributor is a Lutris employee. The original source is available from these respective web sites, and the most restrictive license for the source is covered by the Sun Industry Standards Source License - Version 1.2 license (see http://wbemservices.sourceforge.net/sissl_1-2.html). 

The CIMOM runs as a daemon thread inside Lutris EAS. This allows the CIMOM to take advantage of all the capabilities that EAS provides, such as Logging, Security, JNDI namespace, and Management. The CIMOM Service uses the Lutris EAS logging capabilities to provide consolidated display of results and status information. It uses the EAS JAAS (Java Authentication and Authorization Service) API to provide user authentication via a pluggable datastore. Management is provided using the JMX (Java Management Extensions) API through MBeans (Management Beans).

Note: As with all field test software, the Scheduler Service Technology Preview is not production quality. It's licensed for field test use only and it shouldn't be used in a production environment.

This service essentially provides a wrapper around the CIMOM. Fewer than 50 lines of code in the CIMOM itself have been changed to allow the CIMOM to function optimally inside of EAS. Essentially, all the CIMOM functionality is unchanged. One goal of this project was to import the CIMOM code with as few changes to it as possible. That said, the CIMOM brings with it bugs that were not addressed by Lutris, and it is provided "as is."

The main changes made to the source were to change the directory paths that the CIMOM uses to be more flexible instead of being hard-coded.

More information on why Lutris EAS should be used with CIMOM can be found in the technology brief Lutris EAS as a WBEM platform.

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