Re: Created Instances deleted after same time.

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> A database would be ideal, but a simple xml text file would do fine.
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Can any one point to any sample for that?  I would like to test that with a
small pgm

thanks

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Kirk Augustin <[email protected]>wrote:

> It is hard to be sure what you mean because you did not tell us very much.
> It almost seems you are saying the providers themselves are disappearing.
> But I assume what you must mean is that the instances a client creates
> through your provider disappear.
> And there is a common misunderstanding people make that immediately comes
> to mind.
> This misconception is that the CIMOM stores instances.
> It does not.
> It is the responsibility of the provider to create permanent storage for
> instances.
> The mistake people writing their first provider make, is that they just use
> aspects of the programming language to create memory storage for instances,
> like NEW and ALLOC.
> That won't work, because providers have to be unloaded from memory after
> some period of no access.
> Otherwise you would have hundreds of providers accumulating in memory, and
> systems would run out of resources.
> So what you have to do is create some sort of nonvolatile storage for
> instances.
> A database would be ideal, but a simple xml text file would do fine.
> Then you need to check and load from this nonvolatile source, whenever a
> client asks your provider for instance access.
>
> Kirk & Trish Augustin
> 11821 NW McNamee Rd
> Portland, OR 97231
>
>
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> *From:* Ricardo Mendes <[email protected]>
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Sent:* Tue, July 13, 2010 8:32:36 AM
>
> *Subject:* Created Instances deleted after same time.
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm facing a strange problem in Pegasus, because I create the Provider
> instances, and some time after they seems to be deleted without any
> intervention.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ricardo
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