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Contents 1 Small Footprint CIM Broker (SFCB) 1.1 Status 1.2 Features 1.3 Documentation 1.4 Get It 1.5 Architecture 1.6 Contact

Small Footprint CIM Broker (SFCB)

SFCB is a CIM server for resource-constrained and embedded environments. It is written in C and designed to be modular and lightweight.

Status

SFCB is under active development. The current stable release version is 1.4.4

Nightly build reports

Features

• Standards-oriented: supports CMPI providers, CIM-XML, MOF
• Small: disk footprint (< 1MB); uses an efficient binary internal object format
• Stable: a provider segfault does not bring down the whole CIMOM
• Configurable: features easily enabled/disabled to suit deployment
• Easy to talk to: HTTP( w/ chunking), HTTPS, Unix domain sockets, LocalConnect interface, SLP
• Tested on UNIX platforms: Linux, BSD; x86, IA64, POWER, MIPS, S/390....
• Packages available from distros: SuSE, Ubuntu (Fedora coming soon)
• Builds easily using GNU Autotools
• Client programs can interface directly with SFCB using SFCC

Documentation

SfcbTheBook The main SFCB documention (contains most of the old README)
Class Providers - A guide for choosing which class provider and repository type to use Slp - A quickstart guide on configuring and testing SFCB with SLP
Ssl - A quickstart guide on configuring and testing SFCB with SSL
Testing - Using the SFCB test suite
Debugging - Debugging SFCB
Enabling the autonomic data center with a smart bare-metal server platform - A whitepaper discussing setup of SFCB in a pre-boot environment

Get It

RPMs are available for Suse, Red Hat and others in the openSUSE Build Service.

Source is available in git or as tarball.

Have code to contribute? Awesome. Please follow the steps for contributing code.

Architecture

• components
• internal object format
• memory management
• provider manager communication and workflows
• class providers

Contact

Chris Buccella
Michael Chase-Salerno
David Heller (hellerda)