Managers Development Conference

Track - Server Management

Implementing SMASH, Part I
Jeff Hilland, HP

This technical session will delve into how to apply the specifications of the SMASH Initiative to a real world implementation. It will focus heavily on how developers use the SM CLP Specification, SM ME Addressing Specification, SM Profiles and SM CLP - CIM Mapping Specification when creating an implementation. This session assumes familiarity with the specifications included in the SMASH Initiative.

The session will cover a quick overview of the specifications and how they interrelate. It will then cover Addressing, Mapping and the CLP through an example of how to apply these specifications to an example implementation. Addressing will be covered by going through the example, developing a model for the example implementation and then demonstrating how to determine & develop UFiTs and UFiPs for that model. It will then use the same example to show how to map the CLP to some profiles for instances in the example model. Finally, it will go through command flow for a mock implementation as if the CLP was interacting with a CIMOM. This information will span sessions Part I and Part II.

Implementing SMASH, Part II.
Aaron Merkin, IBM
Christina Shaw, HP

This is part two of Implementing SMASH and is a continuation of the first session. It will continue with the example implementation with respect to Addressing, Profiles and interaction with a CIM Server.

After the example implementation presentation will be a Q/A with the specification authors. This is a chance for developers to interact with some of the DMTF SMWG members in order be used to provide feedback and ask questions about the session or any of the Specifications in the SMASH Initiative.

Using IPMI to support WBEM everywhere
Steffen Hulegaard, Avocent

This session will focus on direct mapping of hardware/firmware level instrumentation to CIM classes. In particular, we'll focus on SMASH profile classes. The footprint benefits of dynamic (on-demand) instrumentation mapping approaches will be illustrated.

A survey will discuss the trade-offs to between embedded SMASH/CIM support and gateway/proxy SMASH/CIM support. This survey will range from very small management controller ASICs to mezzanine cards (which often use connectors like Intel's Advanced Management System Interface - ASMI or AMD's Open Platform Management Architecture - OPMA). The survey will proceed from there to chassis management modules (CMMs), Shelf Management Controllers (ShMCs) and remote access cards (RACs - i.e. backplane slotted cards).

The unifying power of CIM, and the profiles like SMASH and SMI-S, will be demonstrated with a manageability gateway prototype. This prototype will tie together hardware-level instrumentation ranging from proprietary vendor interfaces to IPMI-over-LAN. A single, consistent SMASH CLP interface will rule them all. The scalability implications of a WBEM gateway fabric will be explored.

IPMI CIM Mapping
Jon Haas, Dell

The IPMI CIM Mapping Guideline published by the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) Forum defines DMTF CIM class/property/method mappings for specific areas of server management provided by IPMI implementations. This includes the behavioral conventions required for interoperability.  It covers mappings for Sensors, System Event Logs, Power Control, User ID management, Entity and FRU data, FW inventory and other IPMI functonality. The guideline is intended to provide the basis for a consistent, cross-vendor mapping of the Intelligent Platform Management Interface to the CIM model.

Management of virtualized environments with open source tools
David Lutterkort, Red Hat, Inc.

Open source virtualization technologies are quickly reaching the point of maturity where they can be usefully deployed in production environments. Virtualization enables management techniques on commodity hardware that have only been available on mainframes so far, posing unique management challenges. This talk gives an overview of the available open source virtualization technologies, in particular Xen, and how existing management tools like kickstart, yum, smartpm, and Red Hat's RHN address these management challenges. Virtualization requires enhancements to all these tools, and the talk will conclude with a summary of current and future developments in open source management tools available in Fedora Core, and the efforts to support relevant standards with them.

Modeling Virtual Computer Systems In CIM
Ron Goering, IBM

Computer system virtualization plays an increasingly important role in today's IT environment. The DMTF recently chartered the System Virtualization, Partitioning and Clustering workgroup to address management challenges in clustered and virtualized environments. This talk will give an overview of the emerging CIM Virtual Computer System model, and review the management scenarios this model supports and how the model supports a variety of computer virtualization systems.

Security Profiles
George Ericson, EMC

This talk describes the proposed DMTF profiles for Authentication and Role Based Authorization. The Authentication Profile specifies the capability to manage 1st and 3rd party authentication. 1st party authentication includes accounts and groups of accounts on the managed system. 3rd party authentication includes the client utilization aspects only. The Role Base Authorization Profile specifies the capability to manage role based authorization. The profile includes the ability to model 1st and 3rd party authorization. 3rd party authorization is modeled from the perspective of the managed, client system.The information in these profiles is intended to be sufficient for a provider or consumer of this data to unambiguously identify the classes, properties, methods, and values that are used to represent and manage roles, privileges, users and groups.