Discussion on the 1st draft of the white paper on Middleware Management

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OMG TDTF White Paper on Middleware Management
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• Discussion on the Version 0.1
• Michelle Sibilla (sibilla_at_irit.fr)
• Dominique Benech (dominique.benech_at_atosorigin.com
  )

() Contacts Michelle Sibilla, Lea Kutvonen
(Lea.Kutvonen_at_cs.Helsinki.FI)
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Outline

• Introduction
• Elements for Management Priorities Discussion
• Conclusion

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1. Introduction

• Historical roadmap
• 1st draft overview
• Call for Contribution
• Requirements census

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Historical Roadmap

• 2001, Sept. OMG RFI on CORBA Management Services
• 2002, Apr. Two responses Finland France
• 2002, Sept. White Paper proposal
• 2002, Nov. New title Middleware Management
• New co-authors TMF DMTF
• 2003, Jan. 1st Draft

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1st Draft Overview

• White paper with inputs from OMG, TMF and DMTF
  members
• Firstly presented at Burlingame OMG meeting
• 1st draft initiated by IRIT and Atos Origin
  http//www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?telecom/2003-01-08
  
• Structured as follows
• Micro domain management objects, ORB, services
• Macro domain management applications,
  federations
• Dependencies
• RFP

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Call for contributions

• OMG
• Telecom, RealTime and Mars working groups
• MITRE Corporation and SDO group
• TMF
• The Architecture group
• No input at this moment
• ORB vendors
• No input at this moment Promia, Inc. s
  contact

THE AIM TO MAKE AN INVENTORY OF REQUIREMENTS
AND EXPECTED STANDARDS SOLUTIONS FOR
MIDDLEWARE MANAGEMENT
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2. Elements for Management Priorities Discussion

• Our Point of View (ATOS/IRIT)
• White paper priorities regarding related works in
  progress
• Middleware management
• Management challenge

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Requirements census

• Management interfaces for objects
• Service Configuration and state Management
• Monitoring of ORB and Services
• Security Mgmt
• QoS parameters configuration and monitoring
• Management Services
• Federation mgmt

TOO LARGE ! NEED TO DEFINE PRIORITIES
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Our point of view (IRIT/ATOS)
First needs of

• Object management interface
• from ATOS industry works
• A PIM management Information for CORBA
• from IRITs research works
• An integrated management approach regarding
  Network and System management domain
• Closely linked topics Mgmt Information,
  Interface and function

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White-Paper Prioritiesregarding related works in
progress

• Management Information
• OMG/TMF SID
• DMTF CIM
• Management Interface
• OMG TDTF SDO
• IETF "netconf" defining a standard "protocol" for
  XML based NM-EM interface
• W3C with work related to Device level
• Management Functions
• OMG IMHO Security
• OMG TDTF/Mars Configuration RFP
• QOS for CORBA Components RFP (OMG Document
  telecom/2003-03 )
• Web Service Management Working Group

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Middleware Management

• Middleware will be one of the resource that
  resides in the computer or multiple computers
• Looking for a generic middleware mgmt,
• Moving towards a self-managed, self-healing
  architecture.
• Need to have some sort of intelligent
  (information model) to figure out how they relate
  to one and the other, the policies and the
  business rules  ...

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Management challenge

• Key Words in Management Community
• Manageability
• Self-management
• Autonomy

What are management challenges for Middleware ?
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Manageability

• Manageability is defined as instrumentation and
  infrastructure that interfaces between the
  managed resource and the resource/application
  manager.
• Infrastructure here is intended to include such
  things as common data representation, policy
  engines, data filters,
• control mecanism, etc.
• Requirements
• a well-known information definition
• an interoperability protocol
• common APIs

Definitions extracted From The OpenGroup
presentation on Applying Manageability to a Real
World Teal-Time distributed Environnement
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Self-Management

• Common set of capabilities
• Solution knowledge
• System administration
• Problem determination
• Autonomic monitoring
• Policy-based mgmt
• Complex analysis
• Transaction measurements

Mapping of industry standards to autonomic
computing core Capabilities
Information extracted from
www-3.ibm.com/autonomic/pdfs/ACwpFinal.pdf
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3. Conclusion

• List of RFP to be define according to members
  wanting to contribute

• Open Discussion

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Open Discussion

• Priorities for the W-P
• How to define them ?
• Which one to choose ?
• Requirements
• Top-5 requirements for Middleware management (?
  keywords) ?