Managers Development Conference

December 5 - 8, 2005
Santa Clara Marriott, Santa Clara, California


Track - Service Availability


SA Forum Introduction, and Distributed Systems Management
Bill Swortwood, Motorola

This track will introduce the attendee to Service Availability Forum’s platform management and high availability cluster and application technologies.  Following this introduction, SAF distributed systems management efforts for all SA Forum Services, and future directions of Systems Management for SAF will be addressed. Future directions with CIM/WBEM, SA Forum future directions, open source and commercial solutions will be addressed.



Hardware Platform Interface

David McKinley, Augmentix


This presentation track will introduce the attendee to the Hardware
Platform
Interface Specification currently published by the Service
Availability
Forum. Areas to be covered are



1.     
The purpose for HPI in a highly
available environment



2.     
Relationship with other platform
management (IPMI, SES, etc)



3.     
HPI structure overview



4.     
Tutorial HPI programming example



5.   HPI Futures and Open Source








 Application Interface Specification

  Steve Mills, Motorola






This presentation track will introduce the attendee to the emerging
cluster
application services called the Application Interface Specification,
currently
published by the Service Availability Forum. Areas to be covered are:



1.     
Application Portability and High
Availability



2.     
AIS Services overview Cluster
Membership, check pointing, event services, message queue and Lock
Management



3.     
Example of coding application to
utilize the AIS services



4. AIS Futures



Application Management Framework

Sayandeb
Saha, Motorola




This presentation
track will cover a Key component of the SAF availability technologies,
SA Forum's Application Management Framework. Topics will include 


    
  
  1. 
    
    Availability and
Redundancy, The SA Forum Redundancy Model
    
  
    2. 
  
  2. 
    
    What is AMF?
    
  
    3. 
  
  3. 
    
    Example of AMF
utilization in creation of a highly available application in a cluster
    
  
    4. 
  
  4. 
    
    AMF futures
    
  
    5.