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 such but never really gave much thought to beyond a Wikipedia level knowledge of it.
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 is, like SMC, a backend technology for some front-end tool. I noticed that a lot of the old Solaris8/9 stuff got scaled back in S10 it would seem and is almost completely absent in OpenSolaris. So whats the deal? Is anyone versed in DMTF's CIM/WBEM standards? Is it just me or are they dying the death? I would seem they are still fairly popular in the Windows world, but they seem to be disappearing from modern UNIX operating systems. Can anyone straighten me out? benr. _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
