Wow, a post about Cimbiote :) I'm happy and sad at the same time.
You're basically the first person who has asked about it. Cimbiote is
now largely unmaintained, and I should update the web page to indicate
we are looking for a new owner. I would really like to see someone
who is well connected with CIM development help continue it.
I would like to take ownership of Cimbiote if you're looking for a new
owner. I added support for associations to Cimbiote a couple of months
back, but haven't got around to testing it thoroughly yet, which is why
I haven't submitted the patch yet.
At the time when it was written we saw a lot of large company interest
in CIM and wanted to help out in making writing providers easier for
those that were not CIM experts -- writing CIM providers is way too
painful, and documentation is scarce. Standardized interfaces, we
thought, were definitely a good idea, but the problem was these
standards were overcomplicated and that created a high barrier to entry
for open-source players (who generally preferred simpler and more
transparent technology). Unfortunately, we were unable to drum up
community interest among pegasus-list and open source CIM project
leaders.
I did a presentation on pywbem and Cimbiote at Management Developers
Conference ( mandevcon.com) back in December. I believe the current
CIM/WBEM community isn't very interested in a Python provider
interface because to date, most of this group has been involved in
embedded environments such as BMCs, where python is not guaranteed
to be present.
