Track - CIM

CIM Schema Overview

John Crandall, Brocade

This presentation is a good starting point for beginners who need a starting point to understanding the CIM Schema as well as developers that understand CIM but are unsure of the process/rules in creating schema for submission to the DMTF or creating vendor extensions. The presentation will include an introduction to the various DMTF models and the recent changes/additions made to the models.   The presentation will also include an overview of the considerations one needs to make when using existing schema and writing new schema for submission to the DMTF.

Profile Usage Guide 1.1

Michael Johanssen, IBM

Andreas Maier, IBM

The DMTF Profile Usage Guide (DSP1001) V1.1 introduces more rigor and clarifies some concepts around the development of DMTF management profiles. The 1.1 update is backwards compatible, i.e. existing management profiles are conformant to this new version of DSP1001. However, new management profiles can be developed so that they are easier to understand and hence easier to implement and exploit. This session gives an overview on these changes. The session is targeted to potential authors and readers of management profiles.

Machine Readable Profiles overview

Bob Blair, AMD

Andreas Maier, IBM

The DMTF Profile Infrastructure WG defines a machine readable way to describe DMTF management profiles, using XML. This effort is expected to greatly reduce the complexity of writing and particularly consuming management profiles during implementaiton. The effort also intends to be the basis on which automated tests against CIM implementations can be written. The session gives an overview on how management profiles are represented in XML, and discusses examples using existing DMTF management profiles. The session is targeted to potential authors and readers of management profiles.

Using CIM for model driven management integration

Guru Bhat, SAP

SAP NetWeaver is SAP’s application server comprising of several components built around a core J2EE and ABAP Application Server. In our tools for managing the NetWeaver platform, we use CIM as the focal point in a model-driven architecture for integrating component management – leveraging the model for UI as well as instrumentation development. The presentation provides an overview of the approach and how CIM plays an important role during design-time as well as runtime management.

Generic Operations

Andreas Maier, IBM

The DMTF Generic Operations are the means by which future management profiles describe their support for WBEM operations, in order to be independent of the WBEM protocol that is used. In addition, Generic Operations are intended to ensure that new WBEM protocols (and extensions to existing protocols) are defined consistently so that multi-protocol servers and clients can be developed. This sesison gives an overview about the generic operations as defined in DSP0223, and provides an update on the current and future work of the DMTF Generic Operations WG.

Using CIM for system landscape management

Guru Bhat, SAP

The presentation describes how SAP uses CIM for managing the system landscape in customer installations. We use CIM as the model to describe all landscape elements including systems and installed software products and components. The information is surfaced using a CIM Object Manager.

Metrics Profile Overview

Oliver Benke, IBM

The dynamic metrics model of the CIM schema has now been described in a Base Metrics Profile. Along with that, a DMTF Metrics Registry has been defined in order to register metrics that have been defined. This session explains the pros and cons of the dynamic metrics model compared to the statistical data model, and how the two models can be used together. It also gives an overview about the metrics registry, both its format and the currently defined metrics.

UML profile for CIM overview

Andreas Maier, IBM

DMTF published a preliminary version of a UML profile for CIM in 9/2007 (DSP0219). This session gives an overview on how CIM models and schemas can be represented in UML. It also provides an update on the current and future activities around UML in the DMTF Architecture WG, and interaction with OMG on this.