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DMTF Tutorial
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Management Initiatives
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SMASH | SMI
A Management Initiative is an industry effort to address an
existing need for additional capabilities and improvements
(that is, Initiative Subject) in distributed
enterprise management particular to a specific vertical market.
For such an effort to gain traction and buy-in from the
broadest possible set of stakeholders in a given vertical
market, multiple objectives must simultaneously
be addressed. These objectives include
- Identifying and organizing a group of technical and marketing experts to define the Initiative Subject to be addressed in the vertical market.
- Soliciting consumer feedback on the scope and prioritization of the areas within
the Initiative Subject to be addressed by the Initiative.
- Building consensus internally within the vendor community that a distributed
standards-based solution has a critical mass.
- Identifying existing standards that can be leveraged in defining a solution to
the Initiative Subject.
- Determining new standards that need to be defined to ensure that a distributed
solution to the Initiative Subject can be achieved.
- Defining the standards that address the Initiative Subject.
- Developing products that validate the distributed, interoperable
goals of the standards.
- Building a brand for the resulting standards.
- Testing and certifying vendor conformance to the standards.
- Deploying real-world products in the market.
- Educating the press, analysts and customers about the value that the Initiative provides.
Two existing Management Initiatives are detailed in this tutorial. The first is the
Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH) Initiative which is an
effort within the DMTF to improve the interoperable management of servers and systems
management. The second is the Storage Management Initiative (SMI) which is an
effort in the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) to improve the interoperable
management of storage networks and hardware.
NOTE: Management Initiatives evolve within the DMTF and
within external standards organizations. Of fundamental importance is that
a group of cross-industry experts participate in the Initiative and that the result of
the effort promotes standards-based distributed management that accelerates the
adoption of interoperable solutions within a market.
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