pywbemtools 0.5.2

Python client tools to work with WBEM Servers using the PyWBEM API.

Pywbemtools is a collection of command line tools that communicate with WBEM servers. The tools are written in pure Python and support Python 2 and Python 3.

At this point, pywbemtools includes a single command line tool named pywbemcli that uses the pywbem package on Pypi to issue operations to a WBEM server using the CIM/WBEM standards defined by the DMTF to perform system management tasks.

CIM/WBEM standards are used for a wide variety of systems management tasks in the industry including DMTF management standards and the SNIA Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S).

Pywbemcli provides access to WBEM servers from the command line. It provides functionality to:

• Explore the CIM data of WBEM servers. It can manage/inspect the CIM model components including CIM classes, CIM instances, and CIM qualifiers and execute CIM methods and queries on the WBEM server.
• Execute specific CIM-XML operations on the WBEM server as defined in DMTF standard DSP0200 (CIM Operations over HTTP).
• Inspect and manage WBEM server functionality including:
  • CIM namespaces
  • Advertised WBEM management profiles
  • WBEM server brand and version information
• Capture detailed information on CIM-XML interactions with the WBEM server including time statistics and details of data flow.
• Maintain a file with persisted WBEM connection definitions so that pywbemcli can access multiple WBEM servers by name.
• Provide both a command line mode and an interactive mode where multiple pywbemcli commands can be executed within the context of a WBEM server.
• Use an integrated mock WBEM server to try out commands. The mock server can be loaded with CIM objects defined in MOF files or via Python scripts.

Installation

Requirements:

1. Python 2.7, 3.4 and higher
2. Operating Systems: Linux, OS-X, native Windows, UNIX-like environments on Windows (e.g. Cygwin)
3. On Python 2, the following OS-level packages are needed:
   • On native Windows:
     • choco - Chocolatey package manager. The pywbemtools package installation uses Chocolatey to install OS-level software. See https://chocolatey.org/ for the installation instructions for Chocolatey.
     • wget - Download tool. Can be installed with: choco install wget.
   • On Linux, OS-X, UNIX-like environments on Windows (e.g. Cygwin):
     • wget - Download tool. Can be installed using the OS-level package manager for the platform.

Installation:

• On Python 2, install OS-level packages needed by the pywbem package:

  • On native Windows:

    > wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pywbem/pywbem/master/pywbem_os_setup.bat
    > pywbem_os_setup.bat
    

  • On Linux, OS-X, UNIX-like environments on Windows (e.g. Cygwin):

    $ wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pywbem/pywbem/master/pywbem_os_setup.sh
    $ chmod 755 pywbem_os_setup.sh
    $ ./pywbem_os_setup.sh
    

    The pywbem_os_setup.sh script uses sudo internally, so your userid needs to have sudo permission.

• Install the pywbemtools Python package:

  $ pip install pywbemtools
  

For more details, including how to install the needed OS-level packages manually, see Installation.

Documentation and change history

For the latest version of pywbemtools released on Pypi:

• Documentation
• Change history