Challenges of IT Systems Management:
Challenges of IT Systems Management Today’s applications offer flexibility for business but introduce management challenges … 'How can we minimize the disparate information we collect?' 'How do we coordinate problem resolution across all parts of the organization?' 'How can we share resource descriptions in a consistent manner?' 'How can we instrument our systems?' 'What industry standards can be applied to help solve the problems?'
COmmunity Systems Management Open Source*:
COmmunity Systems Management Open Source* *COSMOS is a proposed name and will likely change in the future COSMOS
Built upon the Eclipse Platform, the COSMOS project intends to develop generic, extensible, standards-based components for a tools platform upon which software developers can create specialized, differentiated, and inter-operable offerings of tools for system management
The framework will exploit standards-based services for monitoring, and modeling of enterprise resources, applications, and workloads
COSMOS will facilitate the next evolutionary move for systems management
COSMOS will define the common assets needed in a platform for vendors to derive immediate benefit and in turn provide higher value in their own offerings
COSMOS will facilitate a migration to a common and open standards driven set of components
In accordance with Eclipse process the COSMOS project will incubate following the guidance and supervision of the Eclipse Technology PMC
Expectation is COSMOS will graduate to a top level Eclipse project in March 2007 along with the GA of release 1.
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Resource Modeling work will provide reference implementation for Services Modeling Language (SML)
Tooling for validation, editing of common model instances
Consistent way to exchange information describing resources
Relational data base used to store normalized collected data
Build to Managed tooling for develop/test/debug of instrumentation
Tooling to instrument standards based instrumentation, e.g. ARM, JMX, WSDM (and forthcoming WSUM). Dependent on TPTP tooling
Non-disruptive way to support existing or new emerging management standards
Protection of existing investment by bridging future and existing management instrumentation for hardware, OS and software
Example of consolidating WSDM and existing CIM instrumentation is the WSDM andlt;-andgt; CIM Bridge
Basic user interfaces using normalized data
Web based andamp; RCP based clients
Leverage BIRT report technology
COSMOS: Community Benefits :
COSMOS: Community Benefits
COSMOS Project Milestones – 2006-2007:
COSMOS Project Milestones – 2006-2007 January:
Review SML tooling prototype at SML interoperability conference with partners.
March:
Graduate/Launch COSMOS as Top level project
COSMOS Release 1 Availability
SML based tooling
Data collection andamp; visualization
June:
COSMOS release 1.5 Availability
Monitor UI
Remainder of Data Collection
Additional SML tooling updates
November andamp; December:
Tbd
September:
Kickoff in Eclipse and gain agreement on project charter
Establish infrastructure within Eclipse
October:
Begin incubation under guidance of Technology PMC
Begin work on
SML based tooling
Data collection andamp; visualization
Build to Manage
Initial Community:
Initial Community The following companies are helping to shape the project and may contribute committers to get the project started:
IBM (www.ibm.com) 8+
OC Systems (www.ocsystems.com)
GroundWork (www.groundworkopensource.com)
Cisco (www.cisco.com)
Intel (www.intel.com)
Compuware (www.compuware.com)
Where to Meet:
Where to Meet Poster Session
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