Management Matters, May 2008
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DMTF Releases Web Services StandardDMTF recently announced that its Web Services for Management (WS-Management) standard has been ratified Final. Since its debut in April 2006, WS-Management has evolved into a mature standard and has been successfully implemented in a wide range of products from DMTF member companies.IT managers benefit from WS-Management because deployments that support the standard will enable them to remotely access devices on their networks - everything from desktop and mobile systems and servers today, to power management and virtualized environments in the future. WS-Management helps reduce the cost and complexity of IT management by leveraging Internet protocols and standards to manage diverse deployments of the Common Information Model (CIM) instrumented devices. It also helps enable a secure, simple and low-cost platform for managing mixed IT environments. The WS-Management standard, the latest component of DMTF's Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) initiative, has provided an important building block ingredient for DMTF management initiatives. The WS-Management standard is also referenced as the protocol of choice for both the Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware (DASH) and Systems Management Architecture for System Hardware (SMASH) initiatives. For more information on the WS-Management standard, click here. Now Available: CIM Schema Version 2.18DMTF recently made available the next release of the Common Information Model (CIM) Schema, version 2.18. CIM 2.18 is now available for download on the DMTF Web site.Significant changes made to the final part of the Schema, version 2.18, largely involved taking previous experimental classes used in the Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH) and Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware (DASH) initiatives to Final. The changes to the experimental part of the Schema were around improvements in a variety of areas, including storage, security, wireless networking, system bios, printers and power management. Contributions to the CIM schema have been made possible through the DMTF Alliance Partnerships with the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and the Open Grid Forum (OGF). Preliminary Spec Now AvailableDMTF recently issued a preliminary release of the Base Metrics Profile Command Line Protocol (SM CLP) Mapping Specification, DSP0845. The information in this specification, combined with SM CLP-to-CIM Common Mapping Specification V1.0 [1], is intended to be sufficient to implement SM CLP commands relevant to the classes, properties and methods described in the Base Metrics Profile using CIM operations. *Please note: this notification constitutes a call for Implementation Experience and Essential Patent Rights for the previous specifications. |
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