Author Archives: Russell Doty

OpenLMI is included in Fedora 19, which was released on July 2, 2013. (A preview release of OpenLMI was included in Fedora 18.) The focus of this release is on delivering a set of OpenLMI Providers which have the capability … Continue reading →

Since OpenLMI is based on open industry standards, it is useful to take a closer look at these standards, including the organizations that develop and support them. Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF, formerly “Desktop Management Task Force”) is an industry … Continue reading →

The greatest need for improving the manageability of Linux systems is to provide a standard programming interface – an API – for system management functions. The API should be a low-level interface that provides the needed control over managed systems. … Continue reading →

The DMTF/CIM technology stack has been chosen for the agent infrastructure. This provides several building blocks that accelerate development and reduce cost of implementation: A standard object broker, called a CIMOM (CIM Object Monitor), which provides a standard method for … Continue reading →

OpenLMI, the Linux Manageability Infrastructure, is building the infrastructure to standardize the management of Linux systems. It is an open project, hosted at http://www.openlmi.org. OpenLMI consists of a set of system management agents installed on a managed system, an OpenLMI … Continue reading →

The basic model for Unix and Linux systems is to use small, single purpose programs or utilities to accomplish a single task and to combine these simple modules to perform a complex task. For system management, these modules are typically … Continue reading →