Copyright © IBM Corp., All rights reserved; made available under the EPL v1.0 | March 20, 2008 | Short Talk Standards based systems management: An overview of the COSMOS project David Whiteman IBM Tivoli Software

2 | COSMOS Overview | Copyright © IBM Corp., All rights reserved; made available under the EPL v1.0 Objectives Continue discussion from “Bringing new management standards to Eclipse” Introduce COSMOS (COmmunity Systems Management Open Source ) Discuss implementation of standards Present COSMOS 1.0 release plan Provide additional resources and contacts.

3 | COSMOS Overview | Copyright © IBM Corp., All rights reserved; made available under the EPL v1.0 Why COSMOS? Historically, systems management is closed and proprietary Companies want to integrate resource data from multiple apps and vendors, using open standards Companies want solutions that work and are extensible COSMOS integrates key emerging systems management standards Active members include CA, Cisco, Compuware, IBM, and SAS

4 | COSMOS Overview | Copyright © IBM Corp., All rights reserved; made available under the EPL v1.0 CMDB Federation (CMDBf) Federating management data, integrating disparate data sources Developer Tools Eclipse-based tools:  Wizards for building MDRs (generate code and other artifacts)  Integrated test environment Example MDR implementations Ability to extend with custom visualizations Runtime Framework for CMDBf support:  Query and registration service Web UI components:  navigating to MDRs  submitting queries  visualizing graph response  querying MDR metadata  registering and deregistering configuration items

5 | COSMOS Overview | Copyright © IBM Corp., All rights reserved; made available under the EPL v1.0 CMDBf architecture with COSMOS COSMOS Client Federating CMDB Registration Service CMDBf Query Reconciliation MDR (vendor ABC) Registration Client CMDBf Query COSMOS Flat files COSMOS Data Binding Registration Client CMDBf Query MDR Reference Implementation (COSMOS) SML MDR (vendor XYZ) Registration Client CMDBf Query Service Metadata Registry (COSMOS) Service TypeAddressCapabilities CMDBf_QueryABC_CMDB_xxxe.g., record types, features CMDBf_RegistABC_CMDB_zzze.g., record types CMDBf_QueryXYZ_MDR_bbbe.g., record types, features CMDBf_QueryABC_MDR_xyze.g., record types, features

6 | COSMOS Overview | Copyright © IBM Corp., All rights reserved; made available under the EPL v1.0 Service Modeling Language (SML / SML-IF) Standard for modeling complex services and systems, including structure, policies, and constraints Eclipse tooling: SML-IF editor SML validator SML-IF import/export SML repository as CMDBf MDR

7 | COSMOS Overview | Copyright © IBM Corp., All rights reserved; made available under the EPL v1.0 Solution Deployment Descriptor (SDD) Addresses deployment aspects of management enablement Tooling SDD Programmatic Interface Validator Build-time Generator * - generate SDDs from many sources Runtime Change analysis – what will change as a result of the deployment (software, configuration, state) Analyze SDDs for requirements & dependencies Perform operations (e.g. install, configure, etc.) Create MDRs describing changed resources *- post version 1.0

8 | COSMOS Overview | Copyright © IBM Corp., All rights reserved; made available under the EPL v1.0 Resources and Contacts COSMOS (  Get involved!  Project architecture and organization  Downloads, demo, release plans, and schedules  Defects and enhancements  Developer resources and CVS  Documentation and wiki links  Mailing lists and newsgroup CMDBf ( SML ( SDD (

9 | COSMOS Overview | Copyright © IBM Corp., All rights reserved; made available under the EPL v1.0 COSMOS Release Plan March:  COSMOS 1.0 M2 Availability (now!)  CMDBf 1.0 support  SML 1.0 tooling  Data collection & visualization June:  COSMOS release 1.0 Availability  SML 1.1 support  Additional CMDBf support  SDD initial contribution November:  COSMOS 1.1 Availability  SDD CL1 support  CMDBf spec updates

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