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'''Subject:''' COSMOS Community Kick off meeting minutes - 10/19/2006.
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[[COSMOS|COSMOS Main Page]] > [[Minutes of Community Calls|Minutes of Community Calls]]
  
'''Attendees:''' 
 
* Alan Cabrera & Simone Bordet (Simulalabs); Have experience working in apache but are new to eclipse. Interested in open standards and agent api's.  not concerned with removal of duplicate technology. open api's are a focus.
 
  
* Craig Thomas (Groundwork opensource); Looking to use open source to build interoperable project around open source monitoring; what is missing is an open standards based common model for gathering data. Groundwork is looking forward to progressing the standards and implementation in this space.
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''Logistics''
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Time: 1:00-2:00pm ET
  
* Peter Dorfman (Sybase); Open standards are a big focus for sybase. Monitoring and management is of interest. The agent and data normalization layer is of most interest.
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Call in number, US: 888 241 8547
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* Don Ebright (Compuware): Cross product integration in system mgmnt with open agent infrastructure, organizing metamodels for exchanging data more real time.
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* Oliver Cole (OC Systems); Software Instrumentation around monitoring and understanding what it means to have monitoring data available to be used for modeling.
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Call in number, international: 719 884 0812
  
* Roger Castillo (Alterpoint): Alterpoint is developing eclipse technology in network management and wants to work in cosmos to work on tooling around modeling of networks
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Pass code: 999451
  
* Valentina Popescu (IBM);Working within the Resource modeling subproject/component
 
  
* Mark Weitzel (IBM); Overall architecture and technical leader for COSMOS within IBM
 
  
* Toni Drapkin (IBM); Overall project leader within IBM focused on COSMOS with linkage to SML working groups.
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'''Minutes'''
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* Attendees: 
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** Craig Thomas (Groundwork opensource);
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** Peter Dorfman (Sybase);
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** Don Ebright (Compuware):
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** Oliver Cole (OC Systems);
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** Vasya Gorhkov (CTO from OCS)
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** Brian Vetter (Alterpoint)
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** Valentina Popescu (IBM)
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** Mark Weitzel (IBM)
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** Toni Drapkin (IBM)
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** David Skeen (IBM)
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** William Vambenepe (HP)
  
* Mark Morneault (IBM); Focused on open source within Tivoli brand
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'''Topics:'''
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'''Welcome''' new folks to the community '''Brian Vetter''' from Alterpoint and '''Vasya Gorhkov''' from OCS.   
  
* David Skeen (IBM); Build to manage technical leader within TPTP project.   
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During the review of the proposal a suggestion was made and accepted by the group that we add reference to WS-man once we complete more of the use case work.  At that time we should go back and make sure the proposal scope is still in alignment.   
  
'''Note:''' Interested in participating but unable to attend the kick off:   
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'''Review of use case progress & discussion of high level architecture''' - Craig
* William Vambenepe (HP)
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* Steve Jerman (Cisco)
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* Vijay Tewari (Intel)
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* Harm Sluiman (IBM)
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'''Minutes: '''
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During the course of this conversation, there was a discussion regarding scope of the project.    The team discussed if the project should include the user interface and the data collection.  Overall, the assembled team agreed it was important to keep the project whole in order to provide a limited and basic set of function for "monitoring" / "observing" that demonstrated the use of the instrumentation, SML, and overall COSMOS framework.
  
General agreement across the community is that the current state of the proposal is spot onIt is time to move to the next layer of detail around the component / sub-projects.
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The group recommended the Monitor UI component start by focusing on a minimal set of information needed to connect with the data collection and resource modeling efforts as they are a core part of the infrastructure which will define what should be surfaced in the UI.  The UI work will also help define the requirements in other areas, e.g. data collectionThe objective is to have "just enough" of each to demonstrate the proper usage and extension of the framework.
  
Keeping the door open around modeling resources will constrain what we see in the first implementation. Alterpoint is looking for anything they can use for modeling, extension, configuration information. ''<need clarification>''.   
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Direction is to separate the work into two categories:  near term deliverables vs. longer term mission.
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* There is a distinction between the set of user tools provided to the different roles. A Developer needs a more detailed set of tools than those targeted towards a Systems Admin. For example, the Monitor UI will be limited today, however a Developer in an Eclipse environment needs to have a more detailed set of information available to them. This is tied to the work item discussed last week where we need to position COSMOS relative to other eclipse projects, e.g. TPTP, is just one of those. See [[COSMOSProjectRelationships]] 
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* Part of "Build to Manage" implies build to monitor but the framework does not need to cover all aspects at the outset.   
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* The UI may need to surface aspects of the runtime but it also must be extensible to support vendor specific plug-in's similar to a toolkit. 
  
Within the project scope the term monitor is being used vs. managingWhat is meant by monitor and management within COSMOS? 
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Everyone agreed participation of systems management vendors is a key part of the success of the project. One purpose of the project is to provide componentry for these vendors to reuse.  
* Monitor = observation type role
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An action item was taken to begin to articulate how COSMOS differentiates itself from the commercial offerings.   
* Management = control type role
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* Don Ebright and Craig Thomas volunteered to seed this page with some of their thoughts.  See: [[COSMOSDifferentiationToCommercialProducts|Commercial Differentiation]]
  
Within COSMOS we should focus on defining frameworks for the interchange of information. There are a number of standards for gathering the data.  We need the framework for monitoring and dealing with the lack of standard interfaces.   
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''' Where does SML fit in?'''
 
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Discussion around SML concluded the project should leverage SML in a way that the interfaces to data are practical - which they are not today. The subprojects of COSMOS must be able to work together and should not duplicate what is found in other projects.  We need tooling that is focused on helping developers create manageable pieces of code.  SML will not do everything by itself - we will need GUI type tooling to surface the information but we don't need another version of open source tooling for monitoring.  Tooling is needed for defining and creating SML models and the proposal needs to be updated to represent SML in the architecture picture.     
Sybase has a real full blown monitoring infrastructure today but they want to see additional capability for developing tools around this in a standard way as they are likely to be needed by others (e.g data center operations).     
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The build to manage description covers alot of possibilities. What is the definition of build to manage for COSMOS?  
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SML is viewed as a key enabling technology for the COSMOS project.  The initial scope of the resource modeling workgroup will be on the use cases supporting the creation/manipulation of SML based models.  
  
* Provide developers the ability to add instrumentation so it its easy to create models.  
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A work item was taken to understand how SML based models can be used as the integration technology to bring together the COSMOS lifecycle, from instrumentation to basic observation ("monitoring"??).  
* Further clarification will happen as we work through the use cases
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* Don Ebright/Craig Thomas/Mark Weitzel volunteered to start this effort.
  
'''Action items:'''
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Although SML is viewed as the key enableling technology, there was varying degrees of knowledge of SML among the group and those less familiar with it would like to understand in more details how SML can be used to solve integration issues.   
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Identify use cases for each area as follows: 
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* Data collection;  Peter, Alan, Roger.  
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* Build to Manage use case: Oliver,  David
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* Monitor UI:  Alan,  Mark W. , Peter, Craig
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* Resource Modeling;  Valentina, Roger
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Determine what other Eclipse projects have we can leverage and where we need to provide new code.
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''' Build to Manage:'''
* Openneeds an owner with help from one of  the community members
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These use cases largely reflect the work that has been contributed through TPTP. The work posted is an established starting point and the team will focus on what is needed moving forward. 
  
Show which standards will be leveraged by the components
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'''Project Create Status:''' Mark asked the team to make sure they review by next community meeting. Comments should be posted to the wiki or newsgroup.
* Eg. Resource modeling will be in support of SML
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* Ref:  [[COSMOS Project Creation Review]]
  
Working with the other Eclipse projects determine what they would like to get out of the running system as input to what we consider as requirements for future projects.  
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'''Summary of action items:''' 
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* Document how COSMOS differentiates itself from commercial offerings - Don/Craig 
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** See: [[COSMOSDifferentiationToCommercialProducts|Commercial Differentiation]]
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* Each team will look at how these will be consumed into the commercial products.  How much out of the box utility is needed by COSMOS?  - Don, Craig (Part of the Differentiation discussion)
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* Document how SML based models can be used as the integration technology to bring together the COSMOS lifecycle, from instrumentation to basic "observation" ("monitoring"??). 
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** Don Ebright/Craig Thomas/Mark Weitzel volunteered to start this effort.
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* What is needed through a toolkit to extend COSMOS - Peter. 
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* Need to come back and look at data repository - Peter
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* William will work on the resource modeling subteam along with Brian and Valentina.  Valentina will be the focal point. 
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** This team will focus on defining a set of usecases for Resource Modeling sub-project. The usecases will be defined around the development of tools for validating and editing SML documents.
  
Can we set up a wiki site to use as a staging/collection point for our work vs. using email and the newsgroup?
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'''EclipseCon;  '''
* Mark Weitzel to find out if we can do this now or if we need to wait for the create review to happen. *done - see below*
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* Group would like to have some presentations at Eclipse Con. Registration deadlines are nearing. 
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** Judy (OCSystems) and Toni(IBM) working to coordinate and post a message on the newsgroup to allow folks to volunteer.  
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* Ideas discussed are:
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** Panel discussion on using open source software for Systems Management
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** Presentation on Resource modeling based on SML
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** Overview on COSMOS
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** Demo
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** Poster
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** Table topic
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** BoF
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See [[COSMOSEclipseConTopics]] for details.

Latest revision as of 13:38, 14 December 2006

COSMOS Main Page > Minutes of Community Calls


Logistics Time: 1:00-2:00pm ET

Call in number, US: 888 241 8547

Call in number, international: 719 884 0812

Pass code: 999451


Minutes

  • Attendees:
    • Craig Thomas (Groundwork opensource);
    • Peter Dorfman (Sybase);
    • Don Ebright (Compuware):
    • Oliver Cole (OC Systems);
    • Vasya Gorhkov (CTO from OCS)
    • Brian Vetter (Alterpoint)
    • Valentina Popescu (IBM)
    • Mark Weitzel (IBM)
    • Toni Drapkin (IBM)
    • David Skeen (IBM)
    • William Vambenepe (HP)

Topics: Welcome new folks to the community Brian Vetter from Alterpoint and Vasya Gorhkov from OCS.

During the review of the proposal a suggestion was made and accepted by the group that we add reference to WS-man once we complete more of the use case work. At that time we should go back and make sure the proposal scope is still in alignment.

Review of use case progress & discussion of high level architecture - Craig

During the course of this conversation, there was a discussion regarding scope of the project. The team discussed if the project should include the user interface and the data collection. Overall, the assembled team agreed it was important to keep the project whole in order to provide a limited and basic set of function for "monitoring" / "observing" that demonstrated the use of the instrumentation, SML, and overall COSMOS framework.

The group recommended the Monitor UI component start by focusing on a minimal set of information needed to connect with the data collection and resource modeling efforts as they are a core part of the infrastructure which will define what should be surfaced in the UI. The UI work will also help define the requirements in other areas, e.g. data collection. The objective is to have "just enough" of each to demonstrate the proper usage and extension of the framework.

Direction is to separate the work into two categories: near term deliverables vs. longer term mission.

  • There is a distinction between the set of user tools provided to the different roles. A Developer needs a more detailed set of tools than those targeted towards a Systems Admin. For example, the Monitor UI will be limited today, however a Developer in an Eclipse environment needs to have a more detailed set of information available to them. This is tied to the work item discussed last week where we need to position COSMOS relative to other eclipse projects, e.g. TPTP, is just one of those. See COSMOSProjectRelationships 
  • Part of "Build to Manage" implies build to monitor but the framework does not need to cover all aspects at the outset.
  • The UI may need to surface aspects of the runtime but it also must be extensible to support vendor specific plug-in's similar to a toolkit.

Everyone agreed participation of systems management vendors is a key part of the success of the project. One purpose of the project is to provide componentry for these vendors to reuse. An action item was taken to begin to articulate how COSMOS differentiates itself from the commercial offerings.

Where does SML fit in? Discussion around SML concluded the project should leverage SML in a way that the interfaces to data are practical - which they are not today. The subprojects of COSMOS must be able to work together and should not duplicate what is found in other projects. We need tooling that is focused on helping developers create manageable pieces of code. SML will not do everything by itself - we will need GUI type tooling to surface the information but we don't need another version of open source tooling for monitoring. Tooling is needed for defining and creating SML models and the proposal needs to be updated to represent SML in the architecture picture.

SML is viewed as a key enabling technology for the COSMOS project. The initial scope of the resource modeling workgroup will be on the use cases supporting the creation/manipulation of SML based models.

A work item was taken to understand how SML based models can be used as the integration technology to bring together the COSMOS lifecycle, from instrumentation to basic observation ("monitoring"??).

  • Don Ebright/Craig Thomas/Mark Weitzel volunteered to start this effort.

Although SML is viewed as the key enableling technology, there was varying degrees of knowledge of SML among the group and those less familiar with it would like to understand in more details how SML can be used to solve integration issues.

Build to Manage: These use cases largely reflect the work that has been contributed through TPTP. The work posted is an established starting point and the team will focus on what is needed moving forward.

Project Create Status: Mark asked the team to make sure they review by next community meeting. Comments should be posted to the wiki or newsgroup.

Summary of action items:

  • Document how COSMOS differentiates itself from commercial offerings - Don/Craig
  • Each team will look at how these will be consumed into the commercial products. How much out of the box utility is needed by COSMOS? - Don, Craig (Part of the Differentiation discussion)
  • Document how SML based models can be used as the integration technology to bring together the COSMOS lifecycle, from instrumentation to basic "observation" ("monitoring"??).
    • Don Ebright/Craig Thomas/Mark Weitzel volunteered to start this effort.
  • What is needed through a toolkit to extend COSMOS - Peter.
  • Need to come back and look at data repository - Peter
  • William will work on the resource modeling subteam along with Brian and Valentina. Valentina will be the focal point.
    • This team will focus on defining a set of usecases for Resource Modeling sub-project. The usecases will be defined around the development of tools for validating and editing SML documents.

EclipseCon;

  • Group would like to have some presentations at Eclipse Con. Registration deadlines are nearing.
    • Judy (OCSystems) and Toni(IBM) working to coordinate and post a message on the newsgroup to allow folks to volunteer.
  • Ideas discussed are:
    • Panel discussion on using open source software for Systems Management
    • Presentation on Resource modeling based on SML
    • Overview on COSMOS
    • Demo
    • Poster
    • Table topic
    • BoF

See COSMOSEclipseConTopics for details.

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