Adventures in systems land

I just put my name on the attendees list for BarCampESM, it’s an excellent idea to get together in an informal attendee driven agenda. There is not date set yet for barcampESM so I really hope it will be when I can attend.

I have a lot to learn in this area, but hopefully will be able to make some useful contributions based on my background with the whole Grid services evolution and the work being done on the Server group management platform and interfaces.

[Update:] Here is a good description of Summer Camp for Systems Management, from William Hurley, one of the organizers/coordinators.

One of the emerging and in-use technologies for doing both systems and platform management is Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM). In this article on IBM Developerworks, Kyle Croutwater gives a good intro and example of how to use the IBM Tivoli® Monitoring (ITM) Universal Agent® to consume and monitor a Web Services for Distributed Management (WSDM)-compliant interface for a manageable resource using the WSDM Generic Collector Engine (WGCE).

Kyles’ article can be found on developerworks here .