[MIR] wsmancli

libopenwsman1 request:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openwsman/+bug/1262299

Can someone look into enabling the tests? Looks like you'll have to pass --with-tests, add libcunit1-dev to the Build-Deps, and manually run tests/cunit/wsman_cunit_tests. But even then, I'm seeing some errors.

The tests can not be run standalone. You need openwsmand (openwsman deamon) and a CIMOM (sblim-sfcb or tog-pegasus) with base instrumentation (sblim-cmpi-base) running.

There's an additional use-case for wsmancli which should be added to the initial description: Remote Windows management via WinRM. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384426(v=vs.85).aspx for details.

OK, we can not worry about tests. But I notice that we don't seem to properly apply hardening flags:
W: wsmancli: hardening-no-relro usr/bin/wseventmgr
W: wsmancli: hardening-no-relro usr/bin/wsman

I don't think we need a full security audit though.

Added what I believe are the proper flags to the rules file so we don't get the relro warnings from lintian. I also cleaned up the copyright file a bit. Let me know if you need anything else.

Did you upload those flag changes?

Unfortunately I don't have upload rights, so, I'll need a sponsor.

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Michael Terry
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> Did you upload those flag changes?
>
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>
> Title:
> [MIR] wsmancli
>
> Status in The Dell PowerEdge project:
> New
> Status in “wsmancli” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Please consider adding wsmancli to the main repository for Ubuntu
> Server.
>
> Availability - Latest upstream stable release was added to Universe
> for Trusty Tahr. Dell had previously been building unofficial ports
> of this package for Ubuntu for their server user base.
>
> Rationale - wsmancli provides a command-line interface for either
> interacting with a server running openwsman, and it can also be used
> for out-of-band administration of Dell PowerEdge 11G and 12G servers
> via the systems' integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC ).
> Many of our users run Ubuntu on PowerEdge hardware.
>
>
> Lots of details here:
>
> http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/b/techcenter/archive/2010/07/19
> /wsman-for-remote-management-of-dell-poweredge-11g-servers.aspx
>
> wsmancli also works with Intel's AMT technology:
> http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/ws-management-and-intel-active-management-technology-a-primer
>
> An additional use case for wsmancli is remote Windows management via
> WinRM. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
> us/library/aa384426(v=vs.85).aspx for details.
>
> Security - There currently are no open vulnerability reports on the
> package
>
> QA - The project is maintained upstream on sourceforge, with the
> latest release being 2.3.6, released in November 2012:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/openwsman/files/wsmancli/
>
> There is an active development forum:
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=openwsman-
> devel
>
> No exotic hardware is involved to use this software. The Dell DRAC
> devices are supported in Ubuntu and are IPMI 2.0 compliant. Intel AMT
> technology has been out for a while now and will work under linux with
> the right tools (wmancli and amttool).
>
> The following additional packages need to be pulled into main as well,
> since wsmancli depends on them:
>
> libopenwsman1
>
> I will file a separate request for libopenwsman1
>
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Kent Baxley
Field Engineer, Canonical
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I, unfortunately, don't have upload rights, so, I'll need someone to sponsor the changes.

Uploaded Kent's changes to trusty.

asking ubuntu-server if that is still relevant

this depends on LP: #1262299, which is marked as incomplete. So setting this to incomplete as well.

Ubuntu server will not be sponsoring this at this time.