On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 06:26:53PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@xxxxxxxx wrote: > (Responding as plain text, your email probably got punted from the ML from being HTML) > > > > > ... > > > > I'm not sure what you are asking about. Samba does not deal with WMI at all. The state of affairs is > > explained at https://powershell.org/2015/04/24/management-information-the-omicimwmimidmtf-dictionary/ > > -- old WMI (DCOM/RPC-based) is deprecated, new WMI based on WS-MAN is supported and OMI is the > > implementation. We used to have a very limited attemt at writing DCOM stack and nobody worked on > > it for years so it got removed. > > Thanks! That was a very interesting read. > > > Microsoft has already published a MOF parser as part of OMI work: https://github.com/Microsoft/omi/ > > under MIT license. > > Unfortunately that's expecting text MOF, not this intermediary compiled format. > I presume which of these to use is the decision of the vendor? Is there a transition going on from BMOF to Text MOF? Or will both be part of products for the near term? I'm trying to understand if BMOF is a legacy thing now, or if it will continue to be used in new designs. -- Darren Hart VMware Open Source Technology Center
