Owen P. Hall III wrote: > Common Array Manager Project > > Purpose > > Provides management software to OpenSolaris for configuring and monitoring > block storage arrays.
A big +1 from me. > 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 > James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
