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Directory Enabled Networking
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DEN Mapping
The Directory Enabled Network (DEN) initiative is designed to provide
the building blocks for more intelligent management by mapping concepts
from CIM (such as systems, services and policies) to a directory,
and integrating this information with other WBEM elements in the
management infrastructure. This utilizes existing user and enterprise-wide
data already present in a company's directory, empowers end-to-end
services, and supports distributed network-wide service creation,
provisioning and management.
The use of CIM in defining a directory schema enables consistent
schema for, and a common understanding of, directory information.
Common schema and semantics are especially important when defining
and decomposing platform-neutral, high-level policies. Integration
within the WBEM infrastructure ties high-level, infrequently-changing
directory data to the other, more real-time components of the management
infrastructure.
The goals of the DEN effort are:
- to "direct" clients to relevant management services
- to hold a subset of management data
Current efforts are focused on defining directory schema and usage
for:
- Common identity and security administration
- Common understanding of managed systems and services
- Information related to locations, groupings and policy
The data that must be shared in a directory is based on analyses
of business scenarios and profiles, such as mobility management.
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