[Sblim-devel] New Release: wbemcli 1.6.3

[Dave H. <hel...@li...>]

Hi Folks,

Here is announcing a long-overdue release of our command-line tool, 
wbemcli, v1.6.3.  There are a handful of new features, mostly supporting 
testing of basic connectivity and http, as opposed to CIM-XML 
operations.  But I have found these features useful so you may want to 
check them out.  See [bugs:#2627] and [bugs:#2665] for more info.

The most important new feature is the support for IPv6 Link Layer 
Addresses (LLA).  These are the ones that require the "zone identifier" 
in the URL, tacked on to the end of the IPv6 address following the '%' 
character.  Normally the zone id is the interface name (e.g. "eth0") or 
number of the outgoing interface.  (This is required because LLA 
addresses are non-routable, so your local stack has no way of knowing 
which interface to use a priori.)  The syntax is similar to that used by 
ssh or curl.  The wbemcli patch supports either the interface name or 
number in the zoneid portion of the URL.

Speaking of URLs, there is a bugfix to the parsing of the password 
portion of the URL.  This patch was contributed by Vitezslav Crhonek. 
Thank you, sir!

Finally, there is a bugfix for a rather odd problem in wbemcli's 
handling of https connections.  With https you must specify either 
-noverify, which means do not verify the server certificate; or -cacert, 
which means verify the server cert against those stored in our 
truststore.  If you supply neither, wbemcli relies on the "default 
truststore": sort of an "implied" -cacert.  If however, wbemcli could 
not find it's default truststore it would attempt to connect anyway, 
discover it has no truststore, and then rudely abort in the middle of 
the SSL handshake.  This can cause confusing problems at the CIMOM; e.g 
SFCB will produce the following syslog error when this occurs:

   --- SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL during handshake: EOF occurred: client may have 
aborted

So please check for this problem, if you see the above error, before 
reporting a bug to SFCB!  See [bugs:#2629] for more info.

The new release is tagged (WBEMCLI_1_6_3) in CVS and the tarball is 
posted to the SourceForge download page.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sblim/files/sblim-wbemcli/

Enjoy!

-Dave H.

SBLIM Team