1. Service Metadata Registry (COSMOS)
Reference Implementations of New Management Standards!!
Configuration Management Database Federation
with COSMOS
COSMOS
Client
Federating CMDB
Registration Service
CMDBf
Query
Reconciliation
MDR (vendor ABC)
Registration Client
Flat files
Data
Binding
MDR Reference Implementation (COSMOS)
SML
MDR (vendor XYZ)
Service Metadata Registry (COSMOS)
Service Type
Address
Capabilities
CMDBf_Query
ABC_CMDB_xxx
e.g., record types, features
CMDBf_Regist
ABC_CMDB_zzz
e.g., record types
XYZ_MDR_bbb
ABC_MDR_xyz
Service Modeling Language
Reference implementation for Service Modeling Language (SML)
Tooling for validation, editing of common model instances
Consistent way to exchange information describing resources and their relationships
Management
Data
Repository
Service Modeling Language (SML)
SML
Architecture for federating management data
Implementation of CMDBf specification for integrating disparate data sources (MDR role)
Tooling for building management data repositories (MDRs)
Framework supports CMDBf query and registration services
Web interface for submitting queries, registering MDRs, and viewing graph response
Package Identity
What is this thing?
What does it contain?
Package Variability
What “parts are needed to be deployed”?
Requirements
What is needed to deploy this package?
What is needed to be maintained for the lifetime of the deployment?
Results
What does this provide?
What effect will this have on my environment?
Solution Deployment Descriptor (SDD)
Provides external information to enable consumers to analyze and make pre-deployment decisions. Consumers can be tools that are performing composition or tools that are making pre-deployment decisions.
Software Package
(Logical / Not Physical)
Reduce the Complexity of Managing IT Resources!!
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