Management Developers Conference

DECEMBER 3 - 6, 2007 SANTA CLARA MARRIOTT, SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA

Track - CIM


Implementing autonomic analysis with CIM

Andre Asselin, IBM

Autonomic computing holds the promise of increasing the availability of computer systems and reducing the cost of providing warranty support.  CIM provides a great foundation to instrument and monitor computer systems by providing an open, standardized, and comprehensive way to model data.  To get to the analysis level though, industry standards need to be defined and widely implemented to describe symptoms, which is a form of knowledge that indicates a possible problem or situation in the managed environment (in a medical analogy, a symptom of a high fever might be defined as a temperature greater than 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and would be recognized when a patient takes his temperature and the thermometer reads 101 Fahrenheit).  This presentation will provide an overview of the current state of autonomic problem determination, current standards around symptoms, and opinions on next steps to integrate better with CIM and foster implementation.

ITSM and CIM

Rajesh Radharishnan, IBM

Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) programs have gained significant traction in the U.S. and around the world, in the last few years.  ITIL based (IT Infrastructure Library), COBIT based (Control Objectives for Information Technology), and vendor based (such as IBM PRMIT - Process Reference Model for IT) process frameworks are commonly used in these programs.
One significant benefit of these ITSM programs is in the form of better IT Intelligence and IT decision making.  Common Information Model or CIM from DMTF forms the basis for several ITIL tools, such as, IBM Tivoli CMDB and BMC Atrium CMDB.
This paper/presentation discusses relationship between CIM and ITSM and the advantages of using standards, in this case CIM, based tools for ITSM programs.

Using the CIM statistical model to monitor your data

Brad Nicholes, Novell, Inc.

This presentation is intended for those that are interested in how to monitor physical and virtual systems using a common mode by exposing system monitoring statistical data through the CIM model. The presentation will show a deployment of the Ganglia monitoring solution and how the gathered statistics are represented in CIM.
As an IT professional or systems administrator, one of the most important aspects of your job is to know and understand at all times what is going on in your data center.  What is the health status of your physical hardware and virtual machines?  Are your resources overloaded? What are your hardware utilization trends and how can your resources be better utilized?  These are just some of the questions that must be answered in order to be sure that your data center is running smoothly.  Fortunately there are ways to anwser these questions which will allow you to stay on top of what is going on.  Open source monitoring tools such as the Ganglia Monitoring System can be deployed to gather the statistical data about your data center.  Then by taking advantage of the CIM statistical model, this information can be exposed through CIM and consumed by other reporting and analysis tools. Through Ganglia and CIM, you will be able to monitor statistics such as CPU utilization, memory consumption, network throughput, disk I/O and much more.
Because the Ganglia monitoring system is highly extensible, exposing new data points is easy.  This presentation will provide you with an overview of how Ganglia and CIM can be used to monitor your data center and the various ways in which the solution can be customized or extended to meet your data center needs.

Simple Policy Language for CIM

Neeraj Joshi, IBM

CIM-SPL (Simple Policy Language for CIM) was approved early this year by the DMTF Technical Committee as a Preliminary Standard for describing CIM Policies. An implementation of a CIM-SPL provider is scheduled to ship as part of the OpenPegasus CIMOM fall release.  CIM-SPL is a declarative language that lets developers of CIM management solutions express management policies using condition-action rules and hierarchical policy groups according to the CIM Policy Model. The condition language of CIM-SPL has more 100 operations supporting all fourteen CIM basic types including operations to simplify the traversal of CIM associations. Action expressions support the evaluation of sequence, conditional and parallel collection of basic simple actions. It also has the capability of making cascading calls to other policies. The aim of this presentation is twofold. In the first part of the presentation we will review CIM-SPL syntax and semantics and design principles.  In the second part of the presentation we will review the OpenPegasus CIM-SPL provider. Developers will be able to understand the general architecture of the provider and see how polices are loaded and executed in a CIMOM. A live demo will be shown during the presentation. A couple of examples from compliance and virtualization will be discussed.

Implementing the OGF GLUE Information Model

Sergio Andreozzi, INFN-CNAF

In the context of the Open Grid Forum, the GLUE Working Group is defining an information model for the description of Grid resources targeted at enabling resource awareness, discoverability and selection.
The modeling activity will unify a number of existing approaches towards the definition of an open standard with reference implementations. The current focus is on computing and storage resources.
The OMII-Europe project is engaged in this activity and is working on a reference implementation of the GLUE computing model for the OGSA-BES (Open Grid Services Architecture - Basic Execution Service) implementations developed within the project itself. OGSA-BES enables users to submit and control jobs to computing resources using a standard interface.
In this paper, we will present the implementation strategy and status, the related issues and the proposed solutions for implementing the GLUE computing model for OGSA-BES by relying on Open Pegasus and CIMP.

CIM V3 Update

Jeff Piazza, Hewlett Packard

A status report to the developer community of progress toward and considerations influencing the CIM V3.0 specification.  Particular topics include enumerations, embedded instances, cross-namespace associations, and interfaces.

Telco Workgroup - Building Bridges Between Standards Communities

Alex Zhdankin, Harris
Jeff Wheeler, Cisco

The Telco WG was formed about two years ago to address emerging harmonization and integration issues between standards traditionally developed and demanded by the telecommunication and IT communities. At the beginning the group was focusing on the mapping work between HPI and CIM. This work is still actively going and the group continues to make steady progress.
In the past year the scope of work the Telco WG is performing has increased dramatically. The group now serves as a bridge between DMTF and TMF with the results of the joint harmonization work being exchanged through it. This includes work on harmonization methodology between CIM and SID, continuing work on harmonization with TMF mTOP model and interfaces and participation in ITU-T Next Generation Management initiatives.
Another direction Telco WG is addressing is IPTV Management. The group performs analysis of existing IPTV standards looking at the similarities and gaps between them and works on creation of CIM-based IPTV Services Management Profile. Among other topics the group is planning to address in the future are various networking profiles, gaps between different standards in the resource naming. The workgroup is also planning to contribute into inter-SDO management interface harmonization.