Training

Course ID: SMI101
Title: Understanding SMI
Duration: 3 Days
Type: Interactive

Description
The Understanding SMI course provides an introduction to the basic concepts for developing Storage Management Initiative (SMI) products that use the Common Information Model (CIM) and Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM). Prior knowledge of CIM, WBEM and the SMI Specification (SMI-S) is not required. Hands-on lab exercises are used to reinforce lecture topics and help the student to better understand the requirements of SMI-S and the semantics of the CIM data model. NOTE: These lab exercises do not involve any programming.

Audience
The intended audience for this course include software engineers, architects, test engineers, technical writers and engineering managers who desire to understand the concepts for developing SMI products that use CIM and WBEM.

Prerequisites
Students should have a working knowledge of the following:

  • Object Oriented techniques

Course Content
Course Overview WBEM
  • Introduction
  • Objectives and Agenda
  • Management Problems
  • Standards Solution
CIM
  • Specification
  • Meta Schema
  • Lab
CIM Schema
  • Core Model
  • Common Model
  • Overview
  • Architecture
  • Client Operations
  • Lab
  • xmlCIM
  • CIM-XML
  • Discovery
SMI
  • Specification
  • Profiles
  • Conformance Testing

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