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 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?
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 hosted by the Open Group and receives contributions from
multiple large vendors. If you do need this ported over and can get me
a list of anything missing that would be helpful.
[1] http://www.openpegasus.org/
./Christopher
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