COSMOS V1.0 is available!

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COSMOS 1.0 provides support for the emerging Configuration Management Database federation (CMDBf) standard, based on the CMDBf 1.0b specification (http://www.cmdbf.org/). Download COSMOS 1.0 and reap the benefits!

As always, we welcome your participation and feedback via the newsgroup, and also hope you will actively "kick the tires" to report bugs and feature requests via Bugzilla.

The COSMOS Team

 

Management Data Repositories (MDRs)

  • Eclipse-integrated toolkit for creating data managers and MDRs
  • Register a MDR with the COSMOS framework
  • Query an MDR from the COSMOS UI, using query builder driven by CMDBf metadata
  • Example MDRs, including a simplistic one and one based on the example data center
  • MDRs accept vanilla web service requests using Axis2
  • Support provided for logging in MDRs
  • Example MDR provided for Aperi database, illustrating a JDBC interface
  • Framework for implementing CMDBf query and registration services
  • Integration between WTP Run on Server and the COSMOS UI in Eclipse when using MDR Toolkit

COSMOS web UI

  • Deploy built-in CMDBf queries
  • Manage CMDBf queries (i.e., rename, delete, create)
  • Visualize graph response with a heirachetical view or graph response view
  • Display service metadata associated with the MDR query service in the COSMOS UI
  • Visualize event and statistical data with preset reports
  • Persist event and statistical information into a relational data store
  • Access COSMOS data from heterogeneous clients
  • Visualize a CMDBf query response
  • Deploy to J2EE environments (for example, Tomcat)
  • Register and deregister an MDR with a federating CMDB

Extension by consumers

  • A library of exemplar CMDBf queries is packaged with the COSMOS UI
  • Extension points in the COSMOS UI to create complementary visualizations in the form of Web 2.0 gadgets and BIRT reports
  • Externalized messages and other user interface text across COSMOS for easy translation

In Research

In addition to the CMDBf support provided in COSMOS 1.0, other COSMOS components are still being developed and are in research mode. We intend to make these components available as part of a future release. These include:

Service Modeling Language (SML) Tooling

  • Support for SML and SML-IF standards, version 1.1 (http://www.w3.org/TR/sml/), including SML and SML-IF document validation, SML-IF editing, import of SML-IF documents and export to SML-IF documents.
  • Example data center described in SML format
  • Web-based viewer composed of Web 2.0 gadgets to thoroughly examine data from SML-IF documents
  • Example information model expressed in SML

Solution Deployment Descriptor (SDD) Runtime and Tooling

  • SDD provides external information to enable consumers to analyze and make pre-deployment decisions. Consumers can be tools that are making composition or tools making pre-deployment decisions.
  • Change analysis - what will change as a result of the deployment (software, configuration, state)
  • Analyze SDDs for requirements and dependencies
  • Perform operations (e.g. install, configure)
  • Create MDRs describing changed resources
  • Create an SDD from existing sources of deployment information (e.g. RPM packages)
  • Combine information from existing SDDs into a single SDD
  • Provides an API for the programmatic creation and manipulation of SDDs
  • Validate SDDs against SDD schema, or against user created validation criteria

 

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