About this project

smipyping is a set of WBEM server test tools based on the pywbem WBEM client implementation. The goal is to provide a variety of tools to be able to test the current status of WBEM servers both superically and by analyzing the details of the server code using the SNIA smi profiles to define the details of the server.

Installation Requirements

1. Python 2.7. At this point, this package will only run with Python 2.7 because one of the core packages (scapy) is Python 2 only.

2. smipyping - Installed as part of the smipyping installation

3. Linux - Including linux tools like make, etc.

We do NOT support python 3 right now primarily because one required package (scapy) does not support python 3. Plans are to remove this requirement and then smipyping will support python 3.

Installation

See INSTALL.md

Usage

smipyping consists of a number of scripts that provide tests of WBEM Servers.

These are documented in the smipyping documentation.

This includes:

cimping   Command group to do simpleping.
explorer  Command group for general provider explore.
help      Show help message for interactive mode.
provider  Command group for simple provider operations.
repl      Enter interactive (REPL) mode (default).
sweep     Command group to sweep for servers.
targets   Command group for managing targets data.

smicli --help                   - Top level help
smicli cimping --help           - Tells you what options/cmds exist under
                                  cimping
smicli cimping providers --help - Parameters for this subcommand that
                                  executes a simple ping against a host.

Targets databases

smipyping depends heavily on some form of database for the following information:

• target wbem server connection information including ip addresses, passwords, user names, ports, and https/http. In addition the current databases include information on ports, profiles, etc. which is being weaned out of the database requirements.

• Information on users, etc. to supplement reports on the status of the wbem server environment.

No database is supplied with the clone or pip of smipyping because the database of targets can contain sensitive information such as names and passwords.

smipyping allows for multiple types of databases:

• sql (mysql). Addition of sqlite is in process but incomplete today

• csv (comma-separated-values) file as a database for at least the the definitions of the target WBEM servers to be tested.

smicli configuration file

smipyping uses a configuration file (default smicli.ini) as the basis for much of the configuration to simplify command line parameters. This file is in standard ini format with sections and name/value pairs.

The file allows the user to define the database used, logging configuration, and other information about the configuration for smicli.

This configuration file is defined in detail in the example and a sample file is included as smicli-example.ini. This can be used as the configuration file by completing the values concerning database configuration and changing the name to smicli.ini.

Status

This code is under development and is provided today in as-is status.

License

smipyping is provided under the Apache-2 license.

Examples:

Running a serversweep

smicli sweep all

Open WBEMServers:subnet(s)=['10.1.132,134,136', '10.2.100:117.1:50']
port(s)=[5988, 5989] range 1:254, time 3.11 min
    total pings=3324 pings answered=66
 IPAddress          CompanyName      Product              SMIVersion
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 10.1.132.135:5989  Unknown
 10.1.132.176:5988  Unknown
 10.1.132.177:5988  Unknown
 10.1.132.178:5988  Unknown
 10.1.132.179:5988  Unknown
 10.1.132.22:5989   Unknown
 10.1.132.24:5989   EMC              VNXe (Unified)       1.4/1.5/1.6
 10.1.132.53:5988   Unknown
 10.1.132.53:5989   Unknown
 10.1.132.70:5989   Unknown
 10.1.132.86:5988   Unknown
 10.1.132.86:5989   Tintri           VMStore              0
 10.1.132.87:5988   Unknown
 10.1.132.87:5989   Unknown
 10.1.134.116:5989  Dot Hill         Assured SAN 5720     1.5
 10.1.134.117:5989  Dot Hill         Assured SAN 5720     1.5
 10.1.134.136:5988  Fujitsu          DX200S3              1.6
 10.1.134.136:5989  Unknown
 10.1.134.137:5989  Hewlett Packard  HP P9500 (Embedded)  1.3.0/1.5.0
 10.1.134.143:5988  Unknown
 10.1.134.143:5989  Unknown
 10.1.134.144:5988  Unknown
 10.1.134.144:5989  Unknown
 10.1.134.146:5989  Hewlett Packard  P2000 G3 MSA         1.5
 10.1.134.147:5989  Hewlett Packard  P2000 G3 MSA         1.5
 10.1.134.148:5989  Hewlett Packard  P2000 G3 MSA         1.5
 10.1.134.163:5989  Brocade          BRCD1 Fabric
 10.1.134.167:5988  Unknown
 10.1.134.167:5989  Unknown
 10.1.134.182:5989  Unknown
 10.1.134.185:5988  Unknown
 10.1.134.186:5988  Unknown
 10.1.134.186:5989  EMC              FC HBA               1.4
 10.1.134.187:5988  Unknown
 10.1.134.187:5989  Unknown
 10.1.134.188:5988  Unknown
 10.1.134.188:5989  Unknown
 10.1.134.190:5989  Unknown
 10.1.134.219:5989  Unknown
 10.1.134.38:5989   Unknown
 10.1.134.75:5988   Unknown
 10.1.134.75:5989   EMC              VNX Storage Array    1.6
 10.1.134.91:5988   Unknown
 10.1.134.91:5989   Fujitsu          DX200S3              1.6
 10.1.134.96:5988   Unknown
 10.1.134.96:5989   Dell/Compellent  Storage Center       1.5
 10.1.134.98:5988   Unknown
 10.1.134.98:5989   Fujitsu          DX80S2               1.4

 . . .

Running smicli cimping

smicli cimping id 4

SimplePing server None, target_id 4
cimping url=https://10.1.134.96, ns=root/compellent, principal=******, cred=********
Running

A running server reports ‘Running’

A failed server reports errors as follows:

smicli cimping id 3

SimplePing server None, target_id 3
cimping url=https://10.1.137.211, ns=cimv2, principal=smilab6, cred=F00sb4ll
https://10.1.137.211 Error Response, Exit code 4 TimeoutError The client timed out and closed the socket after 11s.

Running smicli explorer

smicli explorer id 4

 Server Basic Information
 Id  Url                  Brand  Company          Product         Vers  SMI Profiles  Interop_ns  Status   time
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 04  https://10.1.134.96         Dell/Compellent  Storage Center                                  PyWBMEr  0.40 s

smicli explorer id 3

Server Basic Information
 Id  Url                   Brand  Company  Product  Vers  SMI Profiles  Interop_ns  Status   time
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 03  https://10.1.137.211         Cisco    DCNM                                     PyWBMEr  7.60 s