On Thursday 26 February 2004 22:42, Alan Altmark wrote: > I'm not sure there's a whole lot more I can say. There are two types of > customers: Those that want to spend the money to write their own system > management tools, and those who would rather buy them. I think that, in > the Big Picture, the latter outnumber the former.
Then there's the third class: those who would love to do #2, but can't afford to. I think there's a sizable chunk of them too -- there's still a fair number of people out there doing backups with DDR (the poor folks...). > If we had a viable web/Java environment in CMS, then we might well have > chosen a different solution. But, as things stand right now, RPC is the > closest thing we have to an Open system interface. (Heck, if we had a > viable web/java environment in CMS, we probably wouldn't be having this > discussion! We'd have SOAP, XML, and all the other buzzwords that enable > multiplatform integration!) Well, for this task you also had SNMP, which is far more standard for setting and reading system control information than RPC and would have gotten you immediate support from the current major system management tools, but that's water under the bridge now. SNMP doesn't depend on smoking any of that web services stuff, and at least there are simple (did I actually use simple and SNMP in the same sentence?) line-mode clients for SNMP...8-) But, long term, the SOAP/XML thing and-or CIM is probably the near-term horizon. Maybe it'd be better to do that anyway -- Brian Wade's excellent RSK-based WWW server would make a really nice starting point. Hmm. I wonder how hard it'd be to port xerces to OE...8-) -- db
