On Monday, 12/10/2007 at 10:52 EST, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> > SMI-S provides a standard management API to make tool building 
easier. 
>  
> This is an interesting statement. Would there be interest in a CMS-based 
SMI-S 
> library to enable building tools to automate this sort of stuff, and 
would IBM 
> integrate it if one was available? Seems to be a good enablement project 
if it 
> were.

Yes, there would be interest by those of us who play in the Systems 
Management arena.  Your question about what IBM would or wouldn't do is 
something I can't answer.  If you'd like to propose a joint study or other 
project and can estimate the cost to IBM, you know who to contact.  :-)

Now, if only all the storage controllers out there would implement SMI-S 
interfaces...

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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