* Ladislav Slezak <lslezak@suse.cz> [Aug 06. 2009 13:27]:

Hi all,

I'm workign on fate#306694 ([webyast] Shutdown Module), I checked the CIM model how system shutdown/reboot is modeled there - it's defined in CIM_OperatingSystem class which also provides information about memory size, free swap etc..

Modeling resources should focus on the 'things' of interest, not by whom the resource might be consumed in the future. For the "CIM_OperatingSystem" the resource being modeled is the (running) operating system. This has attributes (i.e. memory size, free swap) as well as methods (i.e. shutdown). It makes little sense (from a modeling perspective!) to separate these aspects.

According to this the reboot/shutdown actions could be part of the status plugin.

Ask yourself, is 'shutdown' a status ?

The question is should we follow the CIM model? Or should we include it in the service API?

As we design the resource-based service API, we do in fact modeling of resources. Picking up the CIM model is a good approach to use whats already available 'upstream'. Klaus P.S.: http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/nets/intro/staff/siemsen/nandisc/dmtf/cim-2.5/tutor... gives a nice insight into how to approach CIM based modeling --- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org