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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7232.60"> <TITLE>CIM> Clarification of CIM v2.11 files on DMTF</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  A couple things to consider when you go to dmtf.org to get the CIM v2.11 files: - The full set of files for the specs is at <A HREF="http://www.dmtf.org/standards/cim/cim_schema_v211/">http://www.dmtf.org/standards/cim/cim_schema_v211/</A> - The experimental files are a superset of the vanilla files.  They include a number of additional classes that have been added recently, about 250 of them.  - There are no new printing-related experimental classes.  Well, there is one, CIM_QueueStatisticalData, that displays counters for running and waiting jobs, which could certainly relate to print queues as well as job queues.  And I might have missed some others.  - Unless you care about the experimental CIM classes, you can get the smaller zip of MOFs, labeled "Final.".  - As I mentioned on the call, but others didn't hear, CIM v2.11 changed the packaging of MOF files.  Now, instead of 128 files containing somewhat arbitrary collections of classes, you now have 1400 separate MOF files, each containing one class, but arranged into fourteen subdirectories.  I personally find the directory structure to be just as arbitrary and confusing as the previous file aggregations were, so I chose to flatten all the files into a single directory when I unpacked the zip.  Your choice.  - The XML files come packaged two ways: one large XML file containing all classes or a thousand individual XML files, one class each.  Your choice again.  Happy reading.  rick ---------------------- Richard_Landau(at)dell(dot)com, System Mgt Arch & Stds +1-512-728-9023, One Dell Way, RR5-3 MS 8509, Round Rock, TX 78682 </BODY> </HTML>