Using Embedded Platform Management with WBEM/CIM

摘要

Management Standards offer a unique way for vendors to customize solutions to the market and build truly interoperable products. These standards are critical building blocks to enable next generation auto-nomic, utility computing environments. For system OEMs and software vendors, standards such as CIM and IPMI help promote interoperability. Customers do not want to be locked in by proprietary technologies that increase their IT capital and operating expenses. Operating System Vendors can now determine the system motherboard features in realtime without fat (resource) intensive agents. Management software vendors are now able to identify system component information, especially management controller information, irrespective of the system state (Pre-OS, etc.). Also, it supports health monitoring directly within their applications. Overall, more accurate system information feeds into the global map/database to the benefit of the administrator. Enterprise Managers (End-Users) are able to enhance the system-specific information (serial number, make, model), as well as health monitoring, all pre-integrated into the system.