[cosmos-dev] FW: Eclipse COSMOS, Apache Muse, and IETF MIB2RMDL effort

["Craig Thomas" <cthomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark,

 

Here's a high level inquiry from Bob Natale at Mitre.

 

Not sure if you were copied on this inquiry. It has some broad implications, so could use your guidance.

 

Thanks,

Craig.

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From: Natale, Bob [mailto:RNATALE@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sat 4/28/2007 2:48 PM
To: Craig Thomas
Subject: Eclipse COSMOS, Apache Muse, and IETF MIB2RMDL effort

Hi Craig,

 

I am contacting you because of your participation on the COSMOS project.  If possible could you please:

 

1. Review the IETF MIB to Resource Model Description Language (MIB2RMDL) info below and let me know whether you think that collaboration between COSMOS and MIB2RMDL makes sense.

 

2. Give me an update wrt COSMOS progress.

 

3. Let me know whether you see a productive relationship between Muse, COSMOS, and MIB2RMDL.

 

At the IETF O&M Area meetings in Prague (March 18-23), we held a mini-BOF on the topic of standardizing a methodology to convert SNMP MIBs to SOA/WS resource model artifacts (tagged as "MIB to Resource Model Description Language" (MIB2RMDL), using "Language" very loosely in this context).  The purpose of the MIB2RMDL effort is to enable unified service/network/system management from the SOA/WS management level by making the virtual library of data models represented by SNMP MIBs and the management instrumentation supporting them more directly accessible to SOA/WS management applications.

 

The material presented in Prague is available at http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/07mar/slides/opsarea-7.ppt. It's relatively short (13 slides or so) and employs the "repetition is the key to learning" approach (familiar to many from Jeff Case's many helpful tutorials on SNMP in past years).

 

The O&M Area decided to proceed with further investigation of the MIB2RMDL idea, with the first step being to establish an e-mail list for discussion of the proposal. If you would like to participate or even just monitor the discussion, you can subscribe at https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/mib2rdml.

 

My hope is that the discussion will lead to sufficient definition and further acceptance of the MIB2RMDL proposal so that we can charter a formal Working Group at IETF-69 in Chicago this July.

 

To jumpstart the e-mail list discussion, I will produce and post an updated (-01) I-D in the next week or so, incorporating input/feedback from the Prague meeting and anything else that might develop on this list in the meantime. (Co-authors welcomed.)  The initial (-00) exploratory I-D is available at http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-natale-snmp-mibs-to-ontology-00.txt, but I recommend waiting for the -01 update.

 

If you know of other individuals or groups who might be interested in or able to contribute to this work, please forward this message to them.

 

(MITRE is a non-profit and vendor neutral federally funded research and development center -- www.mitre.org.)

 

Cheers,
BobN