Cimbiote allows writing and running CIM providers
written in Python.
It is intended to make CIM development more
accessible to developers.
A good analogy is that Cimbiote is to CIM as
mod_python is to Apache.
Plugins are distributed as separate RPMs. Incoming
CIM requests are
routed through Cimbiote to the appropriate plugins
and back into
Cimbiote, allowing CIM plugins to be written
without any C or C++ code,
and, more importantly, without vast knowledge of
CIM. Cimbiote plugins
register MOF files like any other CIM provider,
and are fully accessible
over standard CIM tools like wbemxec and wbemcli.
