Hi Paul, I'm adding some piece of information to the already clear summary provided by Laurence. 1. CIM is a model that we are aware of; I've personally presented a couple of times our work to their community: DMTF Symposium 2007 http://www.mandevcon.com/2007/schedule.html MDC 2007 (http://www.mandevcon.com/2007/schedule.html) presentation here: http://omii-europe.forge.cnaf.infn.it/jra2/presentation?s=mdc it is clear that we model for different goals; there is actually a document edited mainly by Ellen Stokes to which I contributed for the GLUE part that you may want to read: http://forge.ogf.org/sf/sfmain/do/downloadAttachment/projects.ggf-editor/tra... 2. DMTF and OGF relationship there is an official agreement between OGF and DMTF (called work register) for collaborating on well-defined topics; one of this is to render GLUE as CIM extension; the activity has not yet really started; firstly because we need a mature proposal (and we almost have), secondly, because there are other issues to be sorted out such as availability of people from both sides to do the real work 3. WBEM GLUE is not rendered following the CIM meta-model, nevertheless we can exploit WBEM technologies to build a framework for GLUE 2 providers. In the context of OMII-Europe, we actually spent the last months on building such a framework; our software is called GLUEMan and relies on OpenPegasus We plan to release the beta version with new features in the coming days: http://glueman.sourceforge.net/ I plan to present this work also at the next OGF You can find more details on the architecture of GLUEMan in the our milestone document M:JRA2.2: http://omii-europe.forge.cnaf.infn.it/jra2/documentation Cheers, Sergio Paul Millar wrote:
Hi all,
I don't know if anyone has been looking at this, but there's an emerging standard (through DMTF) in modelling "things" (computer-hardware and -software, network equipment, etc): CIM. There seems to be some cross-over here through OGF, so forgive me if this is already "well known".
Anyway, for those who haven't heard of them, their schema makes for interesting reading. The current version (2.18) is available from: http://www.dmtf.org/standards/cim/cim_schema_v218
"Device" (from which a StorageDevice may be published)
http://www.dmtf.org/standards/cim/cim_schema_v28/CIM_Device28-Final.pdf
How to publish ACLs:
http://www.dmtf.org/standards/cim/cim_schema_v218/CIM_Policy.pdf
Enjoy!
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