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CAM has meaning in the context of SCSI, picking another
nomenclature might cause less confusion..

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On Jun 6, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Charles Baker wrote:

>> 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/reso
>> urce_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
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