sure thing...
http://www.dmtf.org/standards/cim/
I have heard that cisco makes use of cim in something they are doing,
possibly this:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/netmgtsw/ps4748/products_programming_usage_guide_chapter09186a00801e18e6.html
but I don't know for sure. CIM has also been debated in the netconf
discussions:
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/netconf-charter.html
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Brent Chapman wrote:
> At 8:19 AM -0700 4/11/05, Paxton wrote:
> >on network modeling, have you all come up with your own model or used
> >something existing? Or taken something existing and modified it?
> >
> >I have looked at CIM and after scratching my head for a few days finally
> >realized that I think of the network in terms of associations, and CIM is
> >laid out by generalizations (inheritance.) The associations are defined,
> >but are sort of hard to find because of the generalization perspective. I
> >don't want to get into a semantics discussion of what's right, I'm more
> >interested in being able to hand a database to a network engineer and say:
> >go for it. IMO a db schema laid out with CIM is too confusing because it
> >isn't laid out according to associations, which is (IMO) how network
> >engineers (vs IT modeling guys) see things.
>
> Can you point us to any references for CIM? I'm not familiar with it.
>
> >Anyway, I have done this before and we sort of took some clues from what
> >was available at the time (SNMP and some vendor tools.) It wasn't exactly
> >right, but I learned a lot from the experience. We put together the
> >database for one specific tool, then realized afterwards how much else it
> >could be used for. I believe the core piece missing is the network
> >model/database, consider all the other parts (how to update devices,
> >monitoring configuration changes, etc) as component services that the
> >database enables. Not all the component parts have to be written for the
> >database to have value, and not everyone will want to use the same
> >component parts.
>
> Bingo! I've been thinking much the same thing...
>
> >Are you all interested in starting an open source project around this?
>
> I don't know about anybody else, but I certainly am. I think that
> such a "network database" would then become a platform upon which
> much else could and would be built; like you said, though, it's
> currently the core missing piece.
>
>
> -Brent
> --
> Brent Chapman <brent@greatcircle.com> -- Great Circle Associates, Inc.
> Specializing in network infrastructure for Silicon Valley since 1989
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