Management MonogatariTales of Resource Management from Mark A. CarlsonWS-CIM Public Release- August 17, 2006 The DMTF has posted the Preliminary (public) release of the WS-CIM Mapping Specification (DSP0230) for review and implementation. The specification is a normative description of a protocol independent mapping of the Common Information Model (CIM) to XML Schema, WSDL fragments and metadata fragments. The idea is to allow current Web Services infrastructure to be used in managing distributed resources while leveraging the existing CIM schemas. One of the effects of this work will be the...http://blogs.sun.com/mac/entry/ws_cim_public_release Service Modeling Language Announced- August 1, 2006 Sun has announced its involvement with a new management specification called the Service Modeling Language (SML). Right now it is being worked through a feedback process before being submitted to a standards body such as the DMTF. The initial draft specification (v 0.5) and the .xsd can be downloaded from the official web page. The specification itself describes a set of constructs for modeling complex IT services and their inter-relationships and dependencies. These are expressed as...http://blogs.sun.com/mac/entry/service_modeling_language_announced |