[sysadmin-discuss] WBEM/CIM

2009-12-19 Thread Ben Rockwood
Are there any WBEM/CIM pro's around? I've tried my hand at it on-and-off for the last couple months and _never_ had luck with it. Whether using the old native WBEM stack which decended from Solaris8 or the new OpenPegasus "cimserver" stack, I just haven't had any luck getting anything to work. M

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
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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