Category Archives: System Management

One of the challenges of remote system management is knowing what systems you are managing and what the supported capabilities of each system are. The brute force way to do this is to keep a list of systems – a … Continue reading →

Stephen Gallagher of Red Hat is organizing a weekly IRC meeting on OpenLMI. The goal of this meeting is to discuss planning and status of various OpenLMI projects, with a higher bandwidth than the OpenLMI mailing lists. The IRC meetings … Continue reading →

We’ve been working on a new OpenLMI website for the last couple of months, and it is now live at http://www.openlmi.org. This is our new community site and is intended to be more friendly than the old site. Please take … Continue reading →

The networking support in OpenLMI is designed to configure and manage multiple NICs on a server. A representative configuration would be a server with a NIC on the motherboard which is used for management functions and a quad (four port) … Continue reading →

The OpenLMI Storage Provider configures and manages local and remote storage. For local storage it has the ability to enumerate (discover) and configure devices. The initial release of OpenLMI storage has the ability to configure remote storage but not discover … Continue reading →

The good thing about standards is that they allow multiple implementations of the standard. The bad thing about standards is that they allow multiple implementations of the standard… The core of any management system based on DMTF/CIM technology is the … Continue reading →

The full process for using OpenLMI: The OpenPegasus CIMOM is installed on the managed system and started. The desired set of OpenLMI Agents are installed on the managed system An OpenLMI client and set of scripts are installed on the … Continue reading →

The primary interface to the CIMOM is a CIM-XML over https protocol implementing the WBEM (Web Based Enterprise Management) specification. WBEM can be use directly, but is normally accessed through language specific client libraries that make it much easier to … Continue reading →

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 →