Bug 712257 - RFE: Provide read-only mode for accessing libvirt-cim
Summary: RFE: Provide read-only mode for accessing libvirt-cim
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: libvirt-cim
Version: 6.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Daniel Veillard
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Blocks: 712505 821105 829518 856753
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Reported: 2011-06-10 01:07 UTC by Perry Myers
Modified: 2012-09-12 18:07 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libvirt-cim-0.5.13-1.el6
Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2011-12-06 12:11:55 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2011:1587 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE libvirt-cim bug fix and enhancement update 2011-12-06 00:38:49 UTC

Description Perry Myers 2011-06-10 01:07:35 UTC
Description of problem:

Add a switch to libvirt-cim so that it connects to libvirt socket using the read-only socket (i.e. virConnectOpenReadOnly vs. virConnectOpen).  In this read-only mode, all libvirt read-only APIs should function normally.  If a CIM API is called that requires read-write socket access, a graceful error should be returned to the user connecting to libvirt-cim.

As part of this feature, we need to make sure we update the libvirt-cim test cases to test read-only mode.

Comment 2 Daniel Veillard 2011-07-07 06:14:04 UTC
libvirt-cim-0.5.13-1.el6 has been built in RHEL-6-candidate and should
provide the functionality. See /etc/libvirt-cim.conf configuration file
and edit it to have

readonly = true;

it should allow only read only operations through libvirt. All others
(i.e. modifying state) should raise an error at the CIM level.

Daniel

Comment 6 IBM Bug Proxy 2011-11-08 21:00:25 UTC
------- Comment From sglass.com 2011-11-08 15:49 EDT-------
---Problem Description---
reverse mirror of Red Hat 712257 on libvirt-cim

Contact Information = na

---uname output---
na

Machine Type = na

---Debugger---
A debugger is not configured

---System Management Component Data---
System management type: na

*Additional Instructions for na:
-Attach screen shoot of System Managment Utility

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 12:11:55 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1587.html


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