Management Developers Conference

FIRST SMASH INTEROPERABILITY PLUGFEST + DEMO

The first SMASH Interoperability Plugfest and Demo will be held on December 4-7 at Management Developer's Conference. SMASH Forum member companies are encouraged to contact the SMASH Forum Chair immediately to participate at this historic event.
Non-member companies of the SMASH Forum can find more information about how to obtain membership in this industry leading organization at http://www.dmtf.org/interoperability/SMASH_Forum/

At the event, participating companies will run a pre-release version of the SMASH Interoperability and Functional Tester contributed by IBM against their implementations. The results of these tests will not be made public. As such, some goals of the plugfest will be:

• Resolution of issues with early versions of the SMASH Interoperability and Functional Tester
• Early detection of non-conformance to the SMASH CLP
• Generation of feedback to the SMWG regarding where rules are ambiguous and conformance problems are likely to occur
• Planning for the expansion of test coverage into 2007

The following five items are planned to be investigated for conformance in participating implementations:

• Base CLP Protocol / Function / Grammar
• Base Server Profile
• Modular System Profile
• Sensor Profile
• Record Log Profile

Thus far, the following companies have committed to attending:

• Avocent
• Dell
• Hitachi
• IBM

If you are interested in participating in the SMASH Plugfest please contact: smashforumchair@dmtf.org