Category Archives: System Management

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 →