Management Briefing
Topics in Enterprise Systems Management
Agenda
Tuesday 27 October
Session 1
- Introduction to Systems Management and the Work of
The Open Group (45 mins.)
by Karl Schopmeyer, (Co-Chair, System Management Program Group) - Karl will provide an overview in the field of Enterprise Systems Management covering the work of The Open Group and general development of standards. He will address the strategic importance of systems management and the development of the art. Karl will look briefly at the attempts to develop management architectures and the extent to which system management fits within an overall architecture. Karl will provide the context for the remainder of the day.
- Software License Management (60 mins.)
by Martin Kirk, The Open Group - Martin will introduce the subject of software license management and explore the issues and concerns which underly the development of the forthcoming Open Group Technical Standard. The proposed Technical Standard provides a standard software license certificate, and a set of programming interfaces for manipulating, obtaining, and releasing licenses.
Session 2
- Service Level Management (90 mins.)
by Carl Bunje, The Boeing Company, and Jim Willits, Hewlett-Packard - Carl and Jim will examine the topic of Service Level Management from both a user's and a supplier's perspective. Increasingly seen as one of the key approaches in getting to grips wih managing the enterprise, Service Level Management is a complex and emerging discipline, for which tools are beginning to be provided. Understanding the definition of services, and the resources on which they depend, will be a major challenge for the end-user community.
Session 3
- Common Information Model (CIM) (60 mins.)
by Ray Williams, Tivoli Systems, Vice-President of Technology, DMTF - Ray will provide a full briefing on CIM. CIM is an approach to management of systems and networks that applies the basic structuring and conceptualization techniques of the object-oriented paradigm. This approach uses a uniform modeling formalism that, together with the basic repertoire of object-oriented constructs, supports the cooperative development of an object-oriented schema across multiple organizations. This enables sharing of information in systems and across networks.
- Systems Management and its Relevance to the
Enterprise (30 mins.)
by Karl Schopmeyer and Martin Kirk. - The presentation will pose the question: "How does the work of The Open Group relate to the Enterprise?"
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