what is OMAPI wrapper

Glenn Satchell

2006-04-17 07:49:33 UTC

Subject: what is OMAPI wrapper
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:29:26 +0530
Hi all
I have downloaded the free ISC DHCP distribution (dhcp-3.0.4b3)
But while going through the source code I got OMAPI wrapper...
why this wrapper is used basically...
plz comment...
thanks & regards
Sanjib

man omapi

NAME
OMAPI - Object Management Application Programming Interface

DESCRIPTION
OMAPI is an programming layer designed for controlling
remote applications, and for querying them for their state.
It is currently used by the ISC DHCP server and this outline
addresses the parts of OMAPI appropriate to the clients of
DHCP server. It does this by also describing the use of a
thin API layered on top of OMAPI called 'dhcpctl'

<snip>

See also the man pages for dhcpctl and omshell for further details
on the implementation.

regards,
-glenn