[RFC] New provider registration process

Tomáš Smetana tsmetana at redhat.com
Wed Aug 21 11:13:33 UTC 2013


On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:24:04 -0400
Russell Doty <rdoty at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 12:22 +0200, Tomáš Smetana wrote:
> > Hello,
> >   I'm now trying to figure out how to improve the provider registration
> > process to make things at least look less fragile from the user's
> > perspective.

<...>

> As an alternative, can the script search for which Providers are
> installed on the system and assume that we should register all installed
> Providers? This would tie registration to package installation, rather
> than making it a separate operation.

We may want to register things not necessarily backed by a provider (a profile
for example).  And for the providers: I need to determine also the right order
of the registrations and the schemas the providers implement.

And yes, I don't think using the registration script outside the rpm
scriptlets should be something usual -- only on very rare occasions should
the user want to manually alter the registrations: still we need to keep this
option.

> Assuming we do a registration database,it would also support query of
> the Providers and versions installed?

Yes, we can list the database information.

> Should the registration database feed information to OpenSLP?

No. It's the duty of the running CIMOM to advertise its capabilities through
SLP.

Regards,
-- 
Tomáš Smetana
Platform Engineering, Red Hat


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