Hi Martine,
Please add me to the LIC enablement
workgroup.
Thanks,
Jenny
Jenny Monesson, Ph.D.
Solutions Architecture
LSI - Engenio Storage Group, Austin TX
jenny.monesson@xxxxxxx
Voice: (512) 794-3723
Fax: (512) 794-3702
From:
aperi-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:aperi-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martine Wedlake
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008
6:36 PM
To: aperi-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [aperi-dev] Call for
Participation -- Open Standards Workgroups
Hello, I'd like to invite everyone in this call to
participate in some Open Standards Workgroups that I will be facilitating. The
general idea is to help make Aperi more relevant to the storage industry by
coordinating and integrating our work with standards organisations including
SNIA, DMTF, and others. Please feel free to forward this note to others
in your development organisation who may be interested.
If
you are interested in joining one or more of the proposals presented in this
note, please reply to this email with a quick note regarding which workgroup
you'd like to join and I'll add you into my list of participants. My plan
is to host kickoff meetings for these workgroups in a couple weeks to give
everyone time to pass this note around and reach the right people.
Thanks!
Proposal 1: Launch in Context (LIC) Enablement
Objectives of Workgroup
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Create standard mechanism to enable registration and discovery of device launch
points for LIC feature
Proposed Mechanism -- Extending the SNIA Access Points
Subprofile
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The Access Points Subprofile describes entry points for element managers
representing the entire device (single entry points)
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We need to extend the simple model to match LIC requirements
Areas of Discussion
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Specify means to bind device model with access points better
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Define LIC parameters to be registered
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Define authorization parameters (enable single sign-on) to be registered
Proposal 2: Production Ready Task Force
Objective of Workgroup
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The SNIA Production Ready Task Force was formed to examine practical,
real-world techniques to make SMI-S work better for real products
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We have a lot of experience within Aperi related to client-side interaction
with SMI-S Agents
Areas of Discussion
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Work together within the Aperi organization to identify issues and relate them
back to the SNIA Production Ready Task Force
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Example Topics: backward compatibility (lack of test coverage); packaging,
discovery, distribution and configuration of CIM Agents; vendor extensions (and
versioning); scalability/performance; specification churn
Proposal 3: CMDB Standardization
Objective of Workgroup
-
Create a plan for componentizing the database repository of Aperi as a CMDB
enabling a common repository between many storage and systems management
applications
Areas of Discussion
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Work with DMTF CMDBf (federation) to help define the CMDB structure and
interfaces
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The CMDB holds information that LIC uses to represent the overall flow from one
application to another; determine how we can leverage this information
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System’s management tools like COSMOS also need a CMDB; working together
with the COSMOS project ties our two projects together opening opportunities
for cooperation on other areas as well
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The interfaces and structure of the CMDB provide a common event and data format
that can be pushed down into the data sources. This gives us an
opportunity to provide real-world expertise into the SNIA Standard Messages and
Common Event Formatting (e.g., WEF) domains.
--
Martine Wedlake, Ph.D.
SMI-S/CIM Storage and Aperi Architect
T/L 775-3072 or (503) 578-3072
martinew@xxxxxxxxxx
