ACTION REQUESTED - Minutes and Updates: Joint DCML TC Meeting 4/24/05

Dear DCML TC 
participants- 

 

I would like to 
thank all who were able to participate in yesterday's TC teleconference and 
encourage all of you to participate in our next joint session scheduled for 
Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at 9:00am. As a reminder, the joint TC 
participants received an action item to develop a use case that 
addresses DCML implementation in the business/upper management layer which 
we would like to review at the next meeting. For additional 
information about the use case discussion or if you would like to volunteer to 
own one of the specific use cases noted within the minutes, 
please let Darrel Thomas or Tim Howes 
know. 

 

If 
you have any edits or corrections to the minutes, please let me know. 
 

 

Best, 

 

Sarah

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Minutes 
from the Joint DCML TC meeting 4/24/05

 

Attendance: 

Andre 
Kramer, Citrix Systems

Bill 
Rehm, EDS

Darrel 
Thomas, EDS

Ajay 
Gummadi, Opsware

Tim 
Howes, Opsware

David 
Basham, Phoenix Business & Systems

Robin 
Basham, Phoenix Business & Systems

 

Minutes 
from Joint DCML Framework/Application-Services TC 5/24/05

 

Agenda

1. What 
needs to happen to consolidate group efforts

2. Use 
Cases

 

1. 
Consolidated Efforts

A review of the current TC structure 
was completed at the New Orleans session and in the effort to simplify and 
eliminate confusion about elemental management vs. interrelationship and 
configuration management to process management; there was a proposal that the 
TCs be restructured. This would take the elemental approach of the TCs such as 
Framework, Application/Services, Server and Network and would replace them with 
a TC entitled configuration management.

Prior to New Orleans, the 
apps/services 
TC was completing work that was dependent on the DCML Framework with some 
efforts focused on mapping services and the rest of the effort on configuration 
use cases. The Framework TC was reviewing use cases as well and there was 
consensus that the activities to date would be complimentary towards the 
movement to the configuration management TC. A draft version of the consolidated 
charter is currently in review and will be submitted to the TC participants for 
comment. 

 

2. Use 
Cases: 

A 
discussion of the contributed use cases currently attached to the Framework 
Specification as well as additional use cases that are needed encompassed most 
of the discussion. Below is a summary of the discussion and actions resulting 
from this topic. 

 

1.       
Individual 
TC Use Case Development

a)       
Application 
Services Use Cases

Had a 
set of use cases from submission into the TC from DCMLO

                                       
i.      
Virtual 
Server 

                                     
ii.      
App/Server 
Configuration

 

b)       
Framework

      Ajay had contributed a 
CMDB use case that was in review with the TC

 

2. 
Consolidated Use Case Development

a)       
Configuration 
Management Use Cases

There 
are four aspects to configuration management that encompasses 
CMDB

1.      
Retrieve 
inform CI

2.      
Retain 
CI and relationship

3.      
Maintain 
CI (Structure elements)

4.      
Audit/Approval

  
    
These 
    use cases should identify and include reference to existing processes that 
    make use of CMDB. 

    
It 
    needs to be addressed how DCML discovers, maps, & audits as well as 
    areas that would be provisioned, automated, & substantiated. 
    

 

b)       
Use 
Cases that exemplify DCML uses from both a technical and business context would 
include: 

1.      
Business 
elements

2.      
Relationship 

3.      
SLA

4.      
Applicable 
to other process

5.      
Marshalling  

These 
use cases should focus on the order of operations and simple rules so as  not to invalidate business controls. 

 

c)       
Role of 
CIM versus Role of DCML

Use case 
that clearly shows the difference between DCML and CIM

            
ACTION: David Basham volunteered to develop draft of DCML/CIM use 
case

ACTION: All to 
volunteer for use case ownership and development with the goal of having use 
cases that address the Business/upper layer for management at the next meeting. 

              

__________________________________________________ 
Sarah 
Barbuscia
Account Manager,
Global Inventures, Inc. (www.inventures.com)
Accelerating Results Through Collaboration
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