WIMS> DMTF links CIM, WSDM, and WS-Management

From: McDonald, Ira (imcdonald@sharplabs.com)
Date: Sun Oct 16 2005 - 18:25:04 EDT

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    Hi folks,

    Very interesting recent bits of news.

    First the Cover Pages writeup of the submission of WS-Management
    to DMTF (by eleven vendors) for standardization:

    http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-09-17-a.html

    [excerpt]

    "Today [September 15, 2005] at Enterprise Management World, Microsoft Corp.
    announced that it, along with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), BMC
    Software Inc., Computer Associates, Dell Inc., Fujitsu-Siemens Computers,
    Intel Corporation, NEC Corp., Novell Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Symantec
    Corp. and WBEM Solutions Inc., has submitted the Web Services for Management
    (WS-Management) specification to the Distributed Management Task Force Inc.
    (DMTF) for further refinement and finalization as a Web services-based
    management standard. WS-Management provides a common manageability protocol
    that allows interoperability across heterogeneous hardware and operating
    system environments. The announcement was also made by Bob Muglia, senior
    vice president of the Windows Server Division, in his keynote address at the
    Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2005 (PDC05) in Los Angeles."

    Then, the corresponding press release by DMTF about how their
    harmonizing management via Web Services:

    http://www.dmtf.org/newsroom/releases/2005_09_12b

    [excerpt]

    "Bethesda, Md. - September 12, 2005 - At Enterprise Management World (EMW),
    the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF®), the industry
    organization leading the development of management standards and integration
    technology for enterprise and Internet environments, today announced plans
    to provide the necessary specifications to expose its widely used Common
    Information Model (CIM) and Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) standards
    via the leading Web services management technologies. The Web Services for
    Management specification (WS-Management), which has been formally submitted
    to the DMTF, and the Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM)
    specification from the Organization for the Advancement of Structured
    Information Standards (OASIS) will be mapped to CIM and other DMTF
    technologies, resulting in simplified management and lower costs for
    technology end users."

    And the very recent submission by to OASIS of WS-CIM (CIM mapping to WSDM):

    http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/specification/ws-w
    sdm/

    Cheers,
    - Ira

    Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
    Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
    PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
    phone: +1-906-494-2434
    email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com

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