[glue-wg] Comparison with CIM

[Paul Millar]

Hi Sergio,

Thanks for the information: all very interesting.

Could all this be put into a wiki page?  It seems a shame that related 
activity and projects, like GLUEMan, aren't mentioned by on the GLUE wiki.

Cheers,

Paul.

On Tuesday 29 April 2008 18:30:20 Sergio Andreozzi wrote:
> 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/tr
>acker.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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