This is a new Work Area that is just being developed.
The objective is for this work area and this session to address issues
that pertain to managing Policy and QoS Requirements as they relate to
Business Processes and Applications. This group is focused on how to
identify operation-critical or business-critical processes and how to
map them to the applications and the resources they depend on, so that
policy associated with a business process and its associated QoS
requirements can be enforced and the parameters can be monitored,
measured and managed effectively through-out all levels and resources in
a business processes dependency chain.
The goal of this session was to explore ways of approaching the
problem that would result at the first level in a generic, not
technology specific framework, but which could be used at another level
to map to instances of specific technologies.
Attendance
Introduction
Sally Long began by describing the joint initiative with the
Application Manageability Forum, which was starting at the business
process level, prioritising it, and mapping it down to the supporting
functions.
Application Manageability
Karl Schopmeyer described the work of the Enterprise Management Forum
on Managing Applications.
- The ARM specification is a set of APIs for measuring response time
within an application.
- At the same time there was a need to develop instrumentation for
managing applications, which ended up with an API which defined a
set of management objects; this was the Application Instrumentation
and Control Specification. One requirement was that the
objects should map onto the DMTF CIM. There is a joint group
with DMTF to tackle the run-time management of applications.
The relationship between the DMTF and The Open Group needs to be
clarified.
ACTION: This is being pursued by Martin Kirk and Karl.
Karl asked that the Open Group should become more involved in the
work of the DMTF because of its customer focus.
ACTION: Karl, Martin, Jean and Sally to discuss this.
