From: Richard_Landau@Dell.com
Date: Mon Mar 09 2009 - 10:49:24 EDT
Info for this morning's concall. Sample log files attached.
rick
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Status of Printer Proxy Provider Prototype
Rick Landau 20090309
Done:
- Array properties in CIM_Printer. Several implemented.
- Localization properties in CIM_Printer.
- All experimental properties in CIM_Printer.
- All experimental classes but the last two associations.
- Agreement from Legal department to publish.
To be done:
- Property CMI_Printer.LanguagesSupported must be mapped backwards from
ASCII values to numeric enum values. Trivial.
- Association classes CIM_AssociatedPrintInterpreter and
CIM_AssociatedPrintSupply must select from the combinatorial set only
the one or two instances that should exist. Not trivial but simple.
- Additional documentation to walk readers through the design.
- Rick and his manager to draft license for open source contribution.
Will not be done:
- CIM_Finisher or its associations.
- Some status properties of CIM_Printer. These require complex roll-up
algorithms of status from all subsystems. Clearly can be done, but the
roll-up algorithm is vendor-specific for any realistic implementation.
- CIM_PrintAlertRecord.CodeName, MessageID, etc. Clearly possible to
do, but no knowledge or experience benefit would be obtained in doing
them.
- Paper-size mappings from dimensions to standard names. Clearly
possible but no knowledge or experience benefit to be obtained in doing
them.
- Complete, installable CIM provider to work in real time with SNMP
network printers and CIMOM.
- Cleanup of evolutionary code. Some algorithms exist in two or three
forms, where I learned a better way to do something and did not upgrade
the existing instances to the new method. Similarly for some data
structures that are partly or wholly redundant.
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