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Introducing the COSMOS Configuration Management Database Federation (CMDBf) Toolkit

In today’s IT environment, there is a vast collection of tools use to manage the enterprise. Many of these tools are specialized for a specific management domain and focus on a specific set of tasks. It is not uncommon to have one set of tools that manage asset information, another that work on configuration information, and yet another set that concentrate on performance data. These tools come from a wide variety of sources, including commercial vendors, open communities, and home grown solutions. Each of the tools typically work on the same set of IT resources although they model and identify them differently. Consider a machine in a data center. The asset tool may refer to the machine through an asset number that was assigned when the physical box was received while the configuration management tool might use a MAC address.

The CMDBf standard defines a the concept of Management Data Repository (MDR). Each MDR must provide an implementation of the APIs that are declared in the specification. These APIs govern how management data can be exchanged between tools. The CMDBf specification is an important step in facilitating cross vendor interoperability. This facilitates the application of higher order management function, e.g. service level agreements, policy, to be implemented across the enterprise.

The COSMOS project will provide a set of enabling technologies, a “CMDBf Toolkit”, that facilitate the creation of CMDBf specification compliant Management Data Repositories. The goal of this toolkit is to provide a reusable framework with well-defined extension points that minimizes the work required to implement an MDR.

Developers that attend this tutorial will learn how to apply the COSMOS “CMDBf Toolkit” to build an example MDR. The MDR will be built on top of a flat file repository provided as part of the COSMOS project. This files in the repository are compliant with the Service Modeling Language (SML) standard.

Upon completion of this tutorial, the Developer will have a solid understanding of integration through the use of federating CMDBs, Management Data Repositories, and the Service Modeling Language (SML).

References: CMDBf Specification: http://www.cmdbf.org/ Service Modeling Language: http://www.w3.org/Submission/2007/01/

Category: Emerging Technology Presenters: COSMOS Team, Mark (IBM), Jimmy (CA), Don (Compuware)

Long Talk

"Bringing new management standards to Eclipse" Today’s IT environments are a complex conglomeration of tools, middleware, and protocols. Even to accomplish the most basic tasks, Systems Administrators must learn specialized tools, specific languages and terms for each management domain (e.g. storage, operations). Keeping these environment running 24 x 7 is an almost Herculean task.

The COSMOS project is focused demonstrating how standards can play a key role in simplifying the management environment. This long talk will describe how COSMOS is developing reference implementations of emerging management standards and applying existing implementations to construct an exemplary, standards-based systems management application.

Attendees of this long talk will gain a firm understanding of the Configuration Management Database federation (CMDBf), Service Modeling Language (SML), Solution Deployment Descriptor (SDD), and Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) specification. The talk will describe how these standards are applied to a basic management scenario that includes resource discovery, configuration management queries, deployment and monitoring.

References: CMDBf Specification: http://www.cmdbf.org/ Service Modeling Language: http://www.w3.org/Submission/2007/01/ Solution Deployment Descriptor: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=sdd Web Services Distributed Management: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsdm

Presenters: Mark Weitzel, Jimmy Mohsin, (an SDD person??)

Short Talk

Standards based systems management: An Overview of the COSMOS project Category: Emerging Technology

This short talk will present an overview of the COSMOS project. Focus will be placed on how industry leaders such as CA, Cisco, Computer Associates, and IBM, are openly collaborating on the implementations emerging industry standards to construct an exemplary systems management application.

Presenters: Toni Drapkin, David Whiteman

Poster

Stop by the COSMOS’ Team poster to learn about how industry leaders are working together to solve some of today’s complex systems management problems. The poster will present the COSMOS architecture and describe how it is applied to several common systems management scenarios.

Category: Emerging Technology

Presenters: All.

BoF

The COSMOS team would like to host a Birds of a Feather to discuss how emerging management standards can be applied to simplify today’s complex IT environments. We will be prepared to have in depth conversations on the nuances of key management specifications and how we’ve chosen to implement them in COSMOS. We will also be able to discuss our first hand experience of applying the COSMOS framework to products from our respective companies.

Category: Emerging Technology

Presenters: ALL

Panel

I didn't see a slot for this. I'll look around some more, but this is definitely a lower priority.

Take a standards angle: Eclipse has joined JCP, W3C Also work with standards for: Oasis, DMTF,