I saw two news on the Internet today, one is "Intel and other 4 manufacturers jointly developed server management standards" (03-12-17), one is "SMASH Simplified Server Management" (2004-12-6), carefully, It is found that the original SMASH is the server management standards established by 4 manufacturers of Intel, and that industrial organization is a distributed management special work group (DMTF) standard organization. Therefore, the standard cannot be small, and it is possible to become industry standards for server management. Two news is now listed below.
4 companies such as Intel, Dell, IBM, and HP, jointly announced a plan to standardize server management.
These four companies will lead a newly established working group. Dell is responsible for the senior administrator of the server management plan, said that the Working Group will define and specifically define and specify interfaces of the server's search, configuration and management. The working group is called the server management working group, which is built within the distributed management Special Working Group (DMTF) standard organization.
According to a statement published by DMTF, the Server Management Working Group planned to develop these standards with a regulation called the command line interface. On July 1, 2004, a draft will be taken. The statement also said that the above efforts have also been supported by both AMD and Sun Microsystems.
Engelgau said that the new interface will easier for independent software vendors and system administrators to write software that can be compatible with various hardware. "With this new standard, the information will be displayed in an industry standard, so any third party can read this information." (Pacific Science News Group)
SMASH Simplified Server Management
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So far, the industry has not yet allowed network managers to directly manage cross-platform standards from multiple manufacturers, leading to hardware manufacturers to develop different tools to manage different operating systems and in different systems. External transport stream.
In order to solve this problem, the Distributed Management Task Group (DMTF) recently announced the details of the Server Hardware System Management Architecture (SMASH) suite, including the Smash Command Line Protocol (CLP) specification. SMASH CLP is independent of machine status, operating system, server system topology, and access methods, which can be easily and intuitively managed within the data center.
The SMASH CLP established on the basis of the DMTF General Information Model is established to provide a "light" command line syntax, which makes the system of different vendors can be represented in a similar manner. Products from different server vendors, including independent servers, blades, cabinets, and partitions can support SMASH CLP commands.
With these products with SMASH CLP functions, users will be able to perform universal operations on console or client, such as opening and closing system power, system log display, booting configuration, and text-based remote console, crossing different manufacturers The server platform is provided to use the same command.
SMASH CLP is a command / response specification that transmits and transmits based on a text message-based transmission protocol (executed by the user or automatically by the script). SMASH CLP syntax is defined using an optional format. Options include free format text, comma format text, "keyword = value", and XML. In this simple interface, the user operates in the directory command target hierarchy. For example, once the session is established by the authentication prompt, the user launches the SMASH CLP interaction using a text message protocol such as Telnet or Secure Shell (SSH).
Text Command Message Utilization Transfer Protocol is transmitted to the server by the user. The SMASH CLP command is transmitted and received in the same manner, regardless of the platform for use - this is a breakthrough in simplified server management.
In addition to providing the protocol, the SMASH CLP specification will also include server configuration files across a variety of separate servers, blades, cabinets, and partitions to accommodate enterprise and telecommunications environment. SMASH CLP defines the user-friendly interface provided in the configuration file to simplify system boot, power, storage, drive firmware, software, system configuration, and hardware product asset management. The SMASH CLP interface provides a collection of hardware in the heterogeneous environment to help reduce management complexity. SMASH CLP also enables users to develop universal scripts to improve the degree of automation of the data center, helping users greatly reduce management costs.
SMASH CLP will resolve the common problems of server management, and create a new era of simply managed in heterogeneous data centers. (US "NetWorkworld" for online world)
