[glue-wg] Comparison with CIM

[Sergio Andreozzi]

Hi Paul,

I'm adding some piece of information to the already clear summary 
provided by Laurence.

1. CIM is a model that we are aware of; I've personally presented a 
couple of times our work to their community:

DMTF Symposium 2007
http://www.mandevcon.com/2007/schedule.html

MDC 2007 (http://www.mandevcon.com/2007/schedule.html)
presentation here: 
http://omii-europe.forge.cnaf.infn.it/jra2/presentation?s=mdc

it is clear that we model for different goals; there is actually a 
document edited mainly by Ellen Stokes to which I contributed for the 
GLUE part that you may want to read:

http://forge.ogf.org/sf/sfmain/do/downloadAttachment/projects.ggf-editor/tracker.submit_ggf_draft/artf6153?id=atch4608


2. DMTF and OGF relationship

there is an official agreement between OGF and DMTF (called work 
register) for collaborating on well-defined topics; one of this is to 
render GLUE as CIM extension; the activity has not yet really started; 
firstly because we need a mature proposal (and we almost have), 
secondly, because there are other issues to be sorted out such as 
availability of people from both sides to do the real work

3. WBEM

GLUE is not rendered following the CIM meta-model, nevertheless we can 
exploit WBEM technologies to build a framework for GLUE 2 providers.

In the context of OMII-Europe, we actually spent the last months on 
building such a framework; our software is called GLUEMan and relies on 
OpenPegasus

We plan to release the beta version with new features in the coming 
days: http://glueman.sourceforge.net/

I plan to present this work also at the next OGF


You can find more details on the architecture of GLUEMan in the our 
milestone document M:JRA2.2:
http://omii-europe.forge.cnaf.infn.it/jra2/documentation


Cheers, Sergio


Paul Millar wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I don't know if anyone has been looking at this, but there's an emerging 
> standard (through DMTF) in modelling "things" (computer-hardware 
> and -software, network equipment, etc): CIM.  There seems to be some 
> cross-over here through OGF, so forgive me if this is already "well known".
> 
> Anyway, for those who haven't heard of them, their schema makes for 
> interesting reading.  The current version (2.18) is available from:
> 	http://www.dmtf.org/standards/cim/cim_schema_v218
> 
> "Device" (from which a StorageDevice may be published)
> 
> http://www.dmtf.org/standards/cim/cim_schema_v28/CIM_Device28-Final.pdf
> 
> How to publish ACLs:
> 
> http://www.dmtf.org/standards/cim/cim_schema_v218/CIM_Policy.pdf
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Paul.
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