Re: [sysadmin-discuss] WBEM/CIM Dead?

2009-06-26 Thread Ben Rockwood
Octave Orgeron wrote: > Hi Ben, > > I wonder about the usefulness of such tools as well. Since most medium to > large shops are using BMC, HP OpenView, or Tivoli, they normally have their > own agents, modules, and plug-ins. Some of them piggy-back onto the SunMC > framework to get more detailed

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] WBEM/CIM Dead?

2009-06-26 Thread Ben Rockwood
C. Bergström wrote > afaik WBEM from Sun is crap (in the words of a Sun developer sent > privately) OpenPegasus [1] is what I've been pointed at, but doesn't > currently build on OpenSolaris. The other problem I had with WBEM is > that some of the java jars are closed source. > > OpenPegasus is h

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] WBEM/CIM Dead?

2009-06-26 Thread Octave Orgeron
Hi Ben, I wonder about the usefulness of such tools as well. Since most medium to large shops are using BMC, HP OpenView, or Tivoli, they normally have their own agents, modules, and plug-ins. Some of them piggy-back onto the SunMC framework to get more detailed info on Sun servers. Ultimately

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] WBEM/CIM Dead?

2009-06-26 Thread C. Bergström
Ben Rockwood wrote: I've kept my eye on the DMTF for a couple years, but honestly only found any usefulness from them as Sun's ELOM/ILOM, and now others, started adopting SMASH CLP for SP interfaces. CIM and WBEM are standards I've seen used as backends for things like the aging Solaris Manageme

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] WBEM/CIM Dead?

2009-06-26 Thread Peter Tribble
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Ben Rockwood wrote: > > So what I find curious is that WBEM was really supposed to be the > successor to SNMP; at least that seems to be how its pitched. But it > hasn't in my mind. I mean, how many sysadmins are out there managing > systems using WBEM, unless it

[sysadmin-discuss] WBEM/CIM Dead?

2009-06-26 Thread Ben Rockwood
I've kept my eye on the DMTF for a couple years, but honestly only found any usefulness from them as Sun's ELOM/ILOM, and now others, started adopting SMASH CLP for SP interfaces. CIM and WBEM are standards I've seen used as backends for things like the aging Solaris Management Console (SMC) and s

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Active directory intergration

2009-06-26 Thread David Bond
Still writing, here hoping one of the people that have been reading this can help. Anyway I have found out what was causing the problem, but I havent solved it for how to get it to do what i want. The problem was: -a serviceSearchDescriptor=passwd:dc=development01,dc=tag,dc=no?sub \ -a service