Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:07:58 -0400
From: Ming Chan <yyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [Fwd: Re: CIMOM question]
To: yyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Hello,

Can anyone help me find some answers to a few questions regarding CIMOM ?

- Why is CIMOM currently in a dormant state ?
- Has anyone done anything using CIMOM in the past ? To what success ?

Below are some background to these questions.

Thanks in advance.

Ming


-------- Original Message --------
From: Martin Kirk <yyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: CIMOM question
To: yyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxx

At 13/10/2004 15:36, you wrote:
 >Hello,
 >
 >I am a stuff engineer with Sun MicroSystems currently working on a 
Managed
 >Storage project. I have looked at AppIQ for heterogeneous SAN management
 >support and for my own curiosity I am doing a bit of background research
 >on what does it take to achieve heterogeneous SAN management. This brings
 >me to SNIA-CIM/WBEM and CIMOM. One paper on CIMOM states that:
 >
 >"The client side API allows developers of management applications and/or
 >other applications that wish to consume CIM/WBEM based management
 >information to access functionality within an object manager."
 >
 >To me this sounds like a good starting point to achieve what I've been
 >looking for.
 >
 >My question is, why is CIMOM currently in a dormant state ? Has anyone
 >done anything using CIMOM in the past ? To what success ?
 >
 >Thanks in advance for your help.
 >
 >Ming


Sorry, I don't have an answer for technical questions like that :-)

I suggest you send it to one of the technical mailing lists such as
yyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, yyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, or 
yyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Regards,

Martin



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