We would like to propose a new working group entitled Performance Monitoring.
The goal of this workgroup is to define a common set of resource definitions and RESTful services that can be used by lifecycle tools such as operational dashboards, applications, and products to monitor resources. The need for this workgroup is further driven by web operations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_operations . Monitored resource definitions define the data about entities like applications, computer systems, storage volumes, etc. commonly used to observe a coarse-grained summary of a monitored resource's state, e.g. its self-reported health. Some monitoring tools collect hundreds or more individual metrics about a range of resources, it is NOT our intent to reproduce that work in all its richness and detail. Only the subset needed to satisfy the in-scope scenarios will be included in the resource definitions, i.e. the subset that most/all tools would be able to provide and that participants can readily agree on. The approach will be to define a small number of tightly constrained scenarios, address those by drafting specifications, collect implementation experience using those drafts, and then close (finalize) those specifications. This will decrease the barrier to sharing monitored data across multiple vendors and tools as part of the Operations Lifecycle. Future iterations of that process may be used to address additional scenarios and resource types. The initial focus will be on application monitoring. This is a key resource type today. There are many other areas of monitoring that could be covered in the future such as storage, network, computer system, etc. The workgroup will be led by Pratik Gupta and Julianne Bielski. Steve Speicher could you please add this to the next Core agenda. Thanx Regards, Donald Cronin Program Director, Tivoli Technical Strategy and Architecture IBM Software Group 2D barcode - Phone: 1-919-224-1452 | Mobile: IBM encoded with 1-919-426-5241 contact E-mail: [email protected] 3901 S Miami Blvd information Durham, NC 27703-9135 United States
