Distributed Management Task Force, Inc.

Developing management standards & promoting
interoperability for enterprise & Internet environments


January Technical Working Group Meetings: Session Information

Monday's sessions:

1-1:30 - Opening Session

1:30-2:30 - Namespaces and Naming
An overview of namespace identification and structure,
and the naming of classes and instances

2:30-3:00 - Query: An introduction to the CIM Query Language

3:30-5:30 and 7:00-9:00 - Working Group Sessions
Interop WG -
   Progress on WG deliverables - Provider operations, discovery, security,
   split of CIM Operations from HTTP, transactions, locking, and CIM-SOAP
Policy WG -
   Policy context and language discussions, and other policy work

9-10 - BOF
Overview of SNIA's Storage Management Initiative, SMI (aka BlueFin)

Tuesday's sessions:

8-8:30 - Plenary

8:30-10 and 10:30-Noon - Working Group Sessions
Interop WG -
   Progress on WG deliverables - Provider operations, discovery, security,
   split of CIM Operations from HTTP, transactions, locking, and CIM-SOAP
Policy and Metrics WGs -
   Policy context, and event-based monitoring and policy conditions
SysDev WG -
   Controller, iSCSI and ComputerSystem discussions
   Modeling additions for modular/blade servers

1-3:00 and 3:30-5:30 - Working Group Sessions
Policy WG -
   Modeling of Service Level Agreements and Service Level Objectives (SLAs and SLOs)
SysDev and Interop WGs -
   Overview and discussion of discovery, error reporting,
   method parameters, localization, locking and transactions

7-9:00 - Working Group Session and BOF
Policy and Applications WGs -
   Use of metrics in policy and service level objectives modeling, and the
   use of policy in applications management
BOF -
   Writing clients for the open-source CIM Object Managers

9-10:00 - BOF continues

Wednesday's sessions:

8-8:30 - Plenary

8:30-10:00 - Working Group Sessions
State WG -
   Discussion of a newly proposed WG to model and manage
   behavior and state information
Network WG -
   Progress on WG deliverables - VLAN and MPLS VPN models,
   topology modeling, L2 technologies such as Frame Relay and ATM,
   service order modeling, and QoS policy
Interop and Metrics WGs -
   Implementation and retrieval of metrics data

10:30-Noon - Working Group Sessions
Policy and State WGs -
   Discussion of modeling and managing state information, and the
   relationship of state and policy
Network WG -
   Progress on WG deliverables - VLAN and MPLS VPN models,
   topology modeling, L2 technologies such as Frame Relay and ATM,
   service order modeling, and QoS policy

1-3:00- Working Group Sessions
AppSvr Subteam -
   Managing the J2EE environment and next steps
SysDev, Interop, Network and User/Security WGs -
   Identity management and authorization modeling
PreOS WG -
   ASF v2.0 experience and next steps

3:30-5:30 - Working Group Sessions and BOF
AppSvr Subteam -
   Managing the J2EE environment and next steps
User/Security WG -
   Identity management and authorization modeling
BOF -
   Overview of the Open Mobile Alliance, and coordination of
   handheld and device management standards

7-9:00 - Working Group Session and BOF
BOF -
   Writing providers for the open-source CIM Object Managers
SysDev, Network and DEN WGs -
   Modeling and schema for the Mobile and Directory (MaD) Challenge

9-10:00 - BOF continues

Thursday's sessions:

8-8:30 - Plenary

8:30-10:00 - Working Group Sessions
Applications WG -
   Runtime and resource application modeling
SysDev and Network WGs -
   Fibre Channel and VLAN alignment, wireless attach issues,
   pipes versus links, and high availability modeling
User/Security WG -
   Identity management and authorization modeling

10:30-Noon - Working Group Sessions
SysDev WG and AppSvr Subteam -
   Modeling of a JVM
DEN and Interop WGs -
   Discovery and the role that the directory can play

1-3:00 - Working Group Sessions
SysDev and Database WGs -
   Discussion of quiescence, its modeling and implications
Security Protection and Management WG -
   Discussion of a newly proposed WG to model and manage anti-virus
   software, firewalls and other security services and infrastructure

3:30-5:30 - Working Group Sessions
SysDev, Application, Policy, SPAM and Network WGs -
   Discussion of metrics and utilization/SLA modeling for QoS, load
   balancing, prediction of denial of service attacks, etc.

7-9:00 - BOF
Mapping of CIM MOF into Rose UML

9-10 - BOF
   Discussion of the use of profiles (sets of classes, properties
   and methods) addressing common or domain-specific management scenarios,
   that can be tested for compliance.

Friday's sessions:

8-8:30 - Plenary

8:30-9:30 - OCL
Using UML's Object Constraint Language with CIM

9:30-10:00 - CIM Futures
Discussion of CIM's next generation

10:30-11:30 - CIM-SOAP
Use of SOAP in WBEM and in OASIS's Management Protocol Technical Committee

11:30-Noon - Wrap-Up