Managers Development Conference

Track - Developer Tools & Utilities

CIM Navigator
Andy Abendschein, DuskFire, Inc.

CimNavigator is a graphical tool that can be used to remotely explore, monitor, and manipulate CIM objects. Written in Java, CimNavigator can be run on any platform that has a compatible JVM, a graphical interface and a network connection. Core functionality includes the ability to create, modify, and delete arbitrary CIM objects, and to navigate the associations between those objects. 

Originally written as a simple tool to understand CIM and WBEM technologies, CimNavigator has become a capable tool used by many developers and students worldwide. CimNavigator is available at the eponymically named web site www.cimnavigator.com.

This talk will present the essential capabilities of CimNavigator, and how CimNavigator can be used by system modelers, provider developers, and students in their day-to-day work.

Client SDK
Carl Chan, WSI

The WSI Client SDK is a freely available set of tools that allow a WBEM developer to interact with other WBEM Servers. This lecture will explain how this software package can be used to help WBEM developers more quickly implement or test their WBEM management solutions . The lecture will also explain and demonstrate how each utility in the Client SDK works.

DMTF Tools and Release Processes
Steve Jerman, Cisco
Julie Schott, Cisco

This presentation will give an overview of the DMTF Release Process and the tool set that supports them. This will be of interested to people interested in leveraging the tools for their own use, for people who want to understand the release process that the DMTF uses and also for MOF authors involved in the DMTF process.

Developing CIM Models in UML2 Tools using ECUTE
Robert Kieninger, IBM

ECUTE is an OpenSource project targeted to support the development of CIM Models using UML Tools such as Rational Software Architect/Modeler (RSM/RSA). It defines a mapping between the CIM Meta Schema and UML2 entities and provides a tool that allows to import and export CIM MOF to and from UML Editors and adds editing capabilities for CIM Qualifiers. In addition ECUTE is able to generate template code for CMPI providers. The session describes the details of the approach that was taken for the CIM to UML mapping and demonstrates the usage of the ECUTE tool in RSA.
The target audience for this session is developers of CIM Profiles, Schemas and CIM Providers.

Model Wizard - Overview & Usage
Steve Jerman, Cisco
Julie Schott, Cisco

This presentation will provide an overview of Cisco’s open source Model Wizard Eclipse Plug-in. It will cover the following topics:

• Installation and usage.

• Customization and profile development.

• Open source licensing and community process.

A CIM/SMI-S Simulator using OpenPegasus
David Dalapati, BlueSAN Technologies, LLC

This presentation describes a CIM/SMI-S emulator using OpenPegasus. The emulator makes development/testing/trouble-shooting/training of upper level client applications much easier by providing a flexible and easily  manipulated environment in comparison to real devices. Also, in many cases, setting up testing environment with real devices for distributed teams could be prohibitively expensive - in these situations, the emulator could be loaded with data from real devices and could be used in place of real devices.