Bob,
Thank you for bringing this effort to my
attention. At a minimum, I intend to follow the mailing list. I can’t
give you an official response, but I will give you my personal opinions for now
and let the project give you a more complete formal answer later.
After reading the presentation, I believe
that the goals of MIB2RMDL align well with some COSMOS data collection
component requirements. In particular, a standard mapping between SNMP
MIBs and a SOA resource model is needed and I believe that IETF is a much
better choice to organize this standardization effort than attempting to do
something ourselves. A SNMP proxy based on Muse would be even more useful
as COSMOS has already committed to Muse and hopes to be able to deliver such a
proxy. My primary concern at this point is that it may prove somewhat
difficult to achieve broad consensus on a common approach at the metamodel
layer, but that is not my area of expertise so I will leave that for others to ponder.
I suspect that you will receive an
official response of some sort within the next week, but for now, the best way
to contact the broader COSMOS community would be a post on our development
mailing list cosmos-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx.
Regards,
Don Ebright
From: Natale, Bob
[mailto:RNATALE@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007
5:41 PM
To: Ebright, Don
Subject: Eclipse COSMOS, Apache
Muse, and IETF MIB2RMDL effort
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 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.
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