Re: [cosmos-dev] MR2 10/24/2007 PPT

[Valentina Popescu <popescu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Very interesting presentation Jimmy;
I feel bad I missed the demo, some of my questions would have been probably
answered on that meeting

The comments/questions I have by just
reading the attached presentation:
- I have a bit of hard time understanding
the high level picture as COSMOS related data is mixed with CA information.
So in many places it is not clear if that function is COSMOS or AC related
( I had to get back to the presentation to see if 'us' and 'ours' refers
to COSMOS or CA )

- There are a few abbreviations I am
not sure how to map to on what I know from open source or common standards;
again I am not sure if I have to even pay attention to those as they are
CA specific.
For example, I stumbled over the MR2
definition on slide 4. MR2 stands for Management Repository and it is an
SOA-based data access service for CA. I have a few questions : 
1. Is this indeed CA specific ? Then
why we define it here ?
2. The CMDBf spec which COSMOS has decided
to support and implement has a notion of MDR ( Management Data Repository
). What is the relationship between MR2 and MDR - if any ( having the almost
identic name we should at least state if there is no direct relationship,
I personally was tricked by that )
3. Slide 5 talks about federating CMDB
as being MR2's stage 2 in COSMOS 2H2008. I should probably know the answer
by now but trying to use this presentation only I couldn't figure it out
how will this happen; what is the proposed relationship between a federated
CMDB and MR2? Pointers to CA implementations doesn't help..:)

- The name of the presentation is MR2
/ COSMOS DC
Looking at the presentation, this is
not about Data Collection but about the COSMOS project ( taken literarily
I would assume this only refers to the Data Collection project deliverables
). Some pieces are done under Resource Modeling as well as Visualization.
The title should reflect this. There are a few places in the presentation
where references to DC only is incorrect for the same reason

- There were a few things I was not
able to understand, mainly because of the CA/COSMOS mixed information (
ex slide 9 )

- It is not clear to me if this is the
COSMOS roadmap. At some point I assumed it's all about the Data Collection
project; looking at slide 20 where SQA is mentioned ( I assume SQA stands
for software quality assurance, or simpler, test team :) I realized it
should cover the entire project. In this case, we should adjust the Next
Steps slide to make sure it includes everything we plan to do within the
project. Speaking of the Resource Modeling sub-project, we are contributing
to the common effort which is the system management framework. But aside
of this, we do some other things to help enable the framework, such as
SML and SML exchange support.

Thank you,
Valentina Popescu
IBM Toronto Labs
Phone:  (905)413-2412         (tie-line  969)
Fax: (905) 413-4850

"Mohsin, Jimmy" <Jimmy.Mohsin@xxxxxx>
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Subject	[cosmos-dev] MR2 10/24/2007 PPT

All,
 
This is what y’all saw on 10/24/2007.  Your
comments welcome.
 
For the record, I wanted to thank Jack Devine
and his team for putting together the demo.
 
Jimmy Mohsin
VP, Principal Architect
Office of the CTO
Cell   +1-609-635-1703
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