Management Matters, February 2008	Page 2

Welcome New Members

Fortisphere, Inc.
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Thank You for Taking the 2008 DMTF Membership Survey

We would like to thank you for participating in the 2008 DMTF membership survey! Your feedback is pivotal to the continued growth and success of DMTF, and will help the organization set priorities and allocate resources. The input garnered from the survey will be used to identify how our technical, marketing and interoperability programs can better meet the needs of our members going forward.

Keep an eye out for future newsletters throughout 2008 as we begin highlighting questions from the survey and your responses to those questions.

Thank you again! We appreciate your hard work and continued effort.

Remember to Renew Your Membership for 2008

Later this month, DMTF will issue membership renewal invoices. If you haven’t done so already, now is the time to renew your membership – the DMTF’s dues remain among the lowest in the industry, maximizing the number of individuals and organizations that can take an active role.

Payment for the next membership year is due by April 1, 2008 (which also marks the beginning of DMTF’s fiscal year) and your timely renewal helps keeps our administrative costs down. We're pleased to offer existing members several payment options. These options and additional information regarding renewals are available online.

If you have questions about this year's membership dues or your invoice, please contact the DMTF secretary, Kes Wold.

FEATURES

Seven Preliminary Specs for Member Review

USB Redirection Profile
A preliminary release 1.0.0a of the USB Redirection Profile (DSP1077) has been announced. DSP1077, prepared by the DMTF Server Management Working Group (SMWG), extends the management capabilities of referencing profiles and provides the capability to manage USB redirections provided by the system. For keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) devices, this profile should be used if the devices are to be managed as USB devices. Otherwise, the KVM Redirection Profile (DSP1076) should be used.

USB Redirection Profile to CLP Mapping Specification
DMTF has issued a 1.0.0a release of the USB Redirection Profile to CLP Mapping Specification (DSP0837), also owned by the SMWG. DSP0837 defines the SM CLP (Server Management Command Line Protocol) mapping for CIM (Common Information Model) elements described in the USB Redirection Profile. The information in this specification, combined with SM CLP-to-CIM Common Mapping Specification V1.0, is intended to be sufficient to implement SM CLP commands relevant to the classes, properties and methods described in the USB Redirection Profile using CIM operations.

Media Redirection Profile to CLP Mapping Specification
This month, DMTF issued a preliminary release 1.0.0a of the Media Redirection Profile to CLP Mapping Specification (DSP0843). Prepared by the SMWG, DSP0843 contains the requirements for an implementation of the SM CLP to provide access to -- and implement the behaviors of -- the Media Redirection Profile (DSP1086).

Media Redirection Profile
Version 1.0.0a of the Media Redirection Profile (DSP1086) has also been released by DMTF. Prepared by the SMWG, this profile extends the management capabilities of referencing profiles and provides the capability to manage Media redirections provided by the system. The target audience for this specification is implementers who are writing CIM-based providers or consumers of management interfaces that represent the components described in this profile.

Standard metric registries: Various working groups within DMTF are defining standard metrics for their management domains. Often these metrics have overlapping semantics with the key difference between them being the context in which they are used. In order to avoid duplication and reduce the number of standard metrics defined by DMTF, there is a need to coordinate the definition of the metrics and consolidate them in a single canonical source. The single canonical source for standard metrics defined by DMTF will be one or more metric registries. This allows multiple specifications (such as two profiles) to reference the same standard metric definition embodied in the metric registry, rather than potentially duplicate definitions in line.

The standard metric registries will be XML documents published by DMTF. Preliminary releases of the standard metric registries are:

Standards Metrics Schema (DSP8020) defines an XML schema governing the format and content of a standard metric registry.
Metrics Class Template Generation XSL (DSP8025) automates the process of exporting a MOF representation of an instance of the CIM_BaseMetricDefinition class that corresponds to a standard metric.
Statistics Class Generation XSL (DSP8024) automates the process of exporting the MOF representation of a sub-class of CIM_StatisticalData that corresponds to one or more standard metrics.

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