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Application Manageability and Quality of Service

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Interactive work area

Offered as a Separate Work Area or as Part of the QoS Task Force Work Package

This Work Area is addressing issues that pertain to Managing QoS Requirements as they relate to Applications. This group is focused on how to identify operation critical applications in the Enterprise and how to map them to the resources they depend on, so that an application's QoS requirements can be monitored, measured and managed effectively through-out all levels and resources in an application's dependency chain. This group will also be looking at ways of application marking as a way of identifying a set of QoS characteristics associated with types of applications.

Major Projects underway in this Work Area

Data Center Resource Mapping to Applications

This project was just recently (July 2002), initiated by The QoS Task Force. The goal of the group is to identify within the Data Center (for purposes of discussion, to be taken as inside the firewall) a top-down hierarchical approach, which looks at mapping sub-elements (system and network resources) to the operation critical applications. The goal of this group is to define a QoS architecture that is not technology specific, but instead, is generic and applicable enough that it could be used by specific management models like CIM or SMTP. This group will also be looking at identifying a generic set of terms that can be used to express QoS characteristics (i.e. reliability, throughput, etc.), which are element specific (server, router, applications etc.) Finally, this group will be looking at the ramifications of aggregate behavior in this space.

Joint work with Enterprise Management Forum

This project will focus on looking at the Data Center architectural model (above), for applicability and fit with various existing management standards, such as CIM, ARM, SMTP, etc.

In addition to the projects listed above, each of the other QoS Work Areas, which can be subscribed to separately or as part of the total QoS Work Package, also support the Quality of Service Strategy as defined here.

For more information on the separate work areas, please use these links:

• Quality of Service Strategy & Standardization

• Enterprise QoS & SLAs

• Real-Time & QoS Requirements

• Application Manageability & QoS