Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual

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Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual Manual pdf 223 page image

9OpenWBEMNovell® has embraced the open standard strategies of Web-Based Enterprise Manage-ment (WBEM) proposed by the Distributed Management Task Force (DTMF)[http://www.dmtf.org/home]. Implementing these strategies can substantiallyreduce the level of complexity associated with managing disparate systems in yournetwork.The following information describes a few of the components proposed by the DTMFstandards. Understanding what these are and how they relate to each other can help youunderstand what OpenWBEM is and how you most effectively use it in your network.• Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) is a set of management and Internetstandard technologies developed to unify the management of enterprise computingenvironments. WBEM provides the ability for the industry to deliver a well-inte-grated set of standards-based management tools leveraging the emerging Webtechnologies. The DMTF has developed a core set of standards that make up WBEM:• A data model: the Common Information Model (CIM) standard• An encoding specification: CIM-XML Encoding Specification• A transport mechanism: CIM operations over HTTP• The Common Information Model (CIM) is a conceptual information model thatdescribes management and is not bound to a particular implementation. This allowsfor the interchange of management information between management systems andapplications. This can be either agent-to-manager or manager-to-manager commu-OpenWBEM 223