Comment Re:Good and bad... (Score 1) 231
Microsoft de-emphasized CIM? DSC (Desired State Configuration) is entirely based on CIM. It works by creating CIM objects with Powershell. It will create a corresponding
MIcrosofties where I work are all excited about DSC. I think they think is Chef/Puppet for Windows. I don't know that they understand that Chef/Puppet do much more than handle providers. If anything Chef/Puppet would use the CIM objects created with DSC. CIM abstracts the complexity of changing the configuration of Windows. Microsoft provided CIM configuration objects are a huge win for scripting configurations!
I'm not sure that the OMI people envisioned large configuration scripts being called through CIM. It would be like configuring an OS via SNMP. SNMP would be the mechanism to call scripts on a remote machine (net-snmp can do this). You could do it, but why? MS could just have easily exposed the objects directly without going through CIM. The advantage I suppose is that OMI provides an open transport to call CIM objects. Only problem, Microsoft uses WS-Management, not WBEM.