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CIMDIFF: advanced difference tracking tool for CIM compliant devices

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Ramani Routray,

Shripad NadgowdaAuthors Info & Claims

LISA'09: Proceedings of the 23rd conference on Large installation system administration

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Published: 01 November 2009 Publication History

Abstract

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for any enterprise scale data center is significantly dependent upon the effectiveness of the system management solutions and procedures deployed. Complexity of managing a data center increases as various enterprise applications demand diverse sets of requirements, leading to a very heterogeneous environment often fueled by diverse emerging technologies. Emergence of the industry standard Common Information Model (CIM) has introduced uniformity and interoperability into this complex managed environment.

In this paper, we describe a tool CIMDIFF that provides syntactic and semantic difference tracking for CIM compliant devices in both spatial and temporal flavors. Since this problem is NP-hard, in this paper we present an efficient technique that combines domain specific object oriented knowledge with hierarchical structure of CIM-XML to derivemeaningful differences. We demonstrate the value of this tool for a) tracking difference in device characteristics b) verification of proper operation as well as automated validation of management software given the limited resources of testing infrastructure. An experimental evaluation of this tool in a complex data center is provided.

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Weaver GSmith SRowland C(2012)XUToolsProceedings of the 26th international conference on Large Installation System Administration: strategies, tools, and techniques10.5555/2432523.2432530(83-100)Online publication date: 9-Dec-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2432523.2432530
Vanbrabant BDelaet TJoosen WSager TAhn GKant KLipford H(2010)Authorizing and directing configuration updates in contemporary it infrastructuresProceedings of the 3rd ACM workshop on Assurable and usable security configuration10.1145/1866898.1866912(79-82)Online publication date: 4-Oct-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1866898.1866912

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