Review Request 458: prototype CIM<->PCP bridge

Roman Rakus rrakus at redhat.com
Mon Jun 17 15:55:43 UTC 2013


On 06/17/2013 04:28 PM, Radek Novacek wrote:
>> >The way I've been thinking about this is that this kind of domain
>> >knowledge could be encoded into those CIM models rather than into the
>> >generic PCP bridge.  For example, would it be possible for the OpenLMI
>> >IPNetworkConnection code to redirect some statistics inquiries to the
>> >PCP_Metric_XXX it knows about.
> This sound reasonable, however we won't be following the CIM modeling. For
> network statistics there is standard CIM class CIM_EthernetPortStatistics [1]
> that provides compatible access to network port statistics.
>
> If we use PCP bridge directly we're going to lose object-level compatibility
> with CIM schema. I don't know how much do we care about it. tsmetana, jsafrane
> - what do you think?
It could be doable as enhancement and it shouldn't brake any 
compatibility. But I'm not sure if it has any gain.

RR


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