Common Array Manager Project Purpose
Provides management software to OpenSolaris for configuring and monitoring block storage arrays. Sponsoring Community Groups Storage Initial Project Team Owen Hall James Kremer Project Description Common Array Manager (CAM) is disk storage device management software that currently ties together Sun's midrange family of disk storage systems (the Sun StorageTek Modular Arrays) in an administrator friendly way. The software includes a web application, currently runnable from the Sun Java Web Console, allowing the user to manage their systems from any browser and a command line client which provides a facility for automating and scripting management operations and tasks. More information about the product and its features can be found on the product page here -- http://www.sun.com/storagetek/management_software/resource_management/cam. The software has been designed with a plug-in architecture. Adding support for new devices is matter of implementing a set of interfaces in the emerging CAM Device SDK. Utilizing this design it is envisioned that CAM can be made to manage other disk systems that are both hardware and software based. This can potentially include other products in the Sun StorageTek Modular Array line as well as upcoming array and disk systems planned by Sun or other manufacturers of storage systems. The main development focus of this project will be to continue to refine and enhance the core application framework, application user interfaces and device SDK. Also, members of the project would be asked to consider writing and contributing new plug-ins for CAM . The goal would be to allow CAM to evolve into a brand neutral disk management application. One idea for a plug-in we have discussed is an SMI-S client-based plug-in that would provide the foundation for allowing CAM to manage any device that has an SMI-S provider. The tentative roadmap for the project is as follows: 1. Make Solaris binaries/packages from the latest release of the software available. 2. Release the CAM SDK along with sample plug-ins. 3. Open source the core/base application source code 4. Open source existing product plug-ins where feasible The current software is released for multiple OS platforms: Solaris, Linux and Windows. We desire to keep CAM host platform neutral but do seek to make it run well and have tight integration with the OpenSolaris platform. We see CAM as enhancing OpenSolaris' storage management software stack making OpenSolaris a good choice as a management host platform. Project Needs OpenSolaris Project Page SCM Management Discussion List This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
