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Enterprise Management Agenda

- including joint session with Quality of Service task Force

January 23rd to 25th, 2002

Wednesday 23rd January

9:00 - 9:45 Conference Wide Plenary Session

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Joint Session with QoS Task Force

9:45 - 10:10  QoS Task Force Road Map for 2002

Jean Hammond, Chair QoS Taskforce

10:10 - 10:30 EMF Road Map for 2002

Karl Schopmeyer, Chair EMF

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:30 Presentations & Discussion on the Different Policy Perspectives from IETF, TMF, and DMTF

Policy-based management has been long awaited and apparently has arrived. Various standards bodies and academic/industry research groups are actively working on enhancing the standardization of the basic policy model(s), policy definition languages, and practical implementations. The panelists will offer different perspectives on QoS and Resource Management Policy as they present current views and status on policy from three different standards bodies: The IETF, The DMTF and The TMF.

The presentations will highlight the similarities and the differences in the approaches, and will be followed by a question and answer period and an interactive discussion with the audience to be moderated by Jean Hammond, QoS Chair.

Ken Roberts, Senior Architect and Techncial Leader in the Intelligent Network Services Business Unit at Cisco Systems, will provide The TeleManagement Forum Perspective on QoS Policy

Andrea Westerinen, Senior Architect and Manager of Information Modeling at Cisco Systems will present the definition and current state of Policy Standards within the IETF and the DMTF

12:30 - 2:00   Lunch

2:00 - 3:00 Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) and the Common Information Model (CIM)

Introduction to CIM and WBEM / The Standards behind Pegasus Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) and the Common Information Model (CIM) are unfolding as the first industry standards to address the interoperable management of a wide set of elements. Using a standard model and set of interfaces, management of everything from hardware to software, and storage to networks, can be accomplished. This talk overviews the WBEM, CIM and DEN (Directory Enabled Networking) efforts, and their realization in various development activities in the industry.

Presenter: Andrea Westerinen, Senior Architect and Manager of Information Modeling at Cisco Systems

3:00 - 3:30  Pegasus => Open Manageability as an Open Source implementation from The Open Group

Presentation on the vision and the business value of an Open Source implementation for the WBEM and CIM technology. A description of what the current and future open source implementations for Resource Management can offer to manage the enterprise in terms of wide-spread interoperability, deployment, and market adoption.

Presenter: Karl Schopmeyer, Chair of The Open Group's Enterprise Management Forum

3:30 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 5:30 Application Performance: metrics for assessing networks and other resources

Two presentations followed by a discussion will show ways that the differing domains of the can be mapped together to provide groups managing various domains across distributed computing environments.

4.00 - 4:30  Applications, Computing & Servers WG

This group is looking into QoS management based on internal instrumentation of applications, which ties into the management of servers, server farms & storage environments. Metrics and measurement can be increasingly rationalized as we link enterprise and network Quality of Service domains.

Presenter: Carl Bunje - Associate Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company

4:30 - 5:00 Networks and Application Performance Analysis - Peter Sevcik, NetForecast

Performance Mapping is a unique profiling and modeling process to determine the key parameters that govern task response time from the user's perspective. The technique focuses on time consumed by application-network interactions that are fundamental to network-based applications. Performance Mapping parameters are key to understanding which Quality of Service techniques are best suited for each application and network environment.

Presenter: - Peter Sevcik, Net Forecast

5:00 - 5:30 Presentation by the Networking and Transport QoS/CoS WG

This working group is focused on defining the range of behaviors that can be taken in the network to support QoS policies including prioritization, path selection and policies for aggregating traffic (especially in IP environments). These can be joined with QoS enforcing transport services such as MPLS. Mobile networking transport challenges are also considered here. Part of the presentation and discussion will focus on an Application Classification Mapping project which classifies Applications into traffic types.

Presenter: Kit Waugh, Vice-President of Marketing and Business Development, NetReality

Wednesday Evening: Member Dinner

Thursday 24th January

9:00 - 9:45 Conference Wide Plenary Session

See Main Agenda

9:45 - 12:30  EMF Planning Session

This session will focus on future planning for the Enterprise Management Forum.

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00- 5:30 Open Source CIMOM Technical and Planning Session

This session will focus on progressing the open source CIMOM technical development, and also on developing a detailed plan for future work.

Friday 25th January

8:30 - 12:30  Open Source CIMOM Technical and Planning Session

This session will focus on progressing the open source CIMOM technical development, and also on developing a detailed plan for future work.