Hands-on Demonstration of DMTF SMASH Specification Shown at EMW.

PHILADELPHIA -- Conference Attendees to View the Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware Command Line Protocol for Intuitive Management of Heterogeneous Servers

At Enterprise Management World (EMW) today, the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF(R)) announced additional details and demonstrated prototypes of its upcoming Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH) Command Line Protocol (CLP) specification. The DMTF's SMASH CLP enables simple and intuitive management of heterogeneous servers in the data center independent of machine state, operating system state, server system topology or access method. Interactive demonstrations of the SMASH CLP prototype are being shown during EMW at the DMTF Technology Showcase by HP and Intel.

"The real-world demonstrations of the SMASH CLP prototypes during Enterprise Management World will give end users and others a hands-on opportunity to see the significance and usability of this specification for the critically important functions of server management," said Winston Bumpus, president, DMTF. "In addition to the demonstrations, details of the SMASH CLP, and the rest of the SMASH family of specifications, will be presented at length as part of the EMW conference program today. With the vendor community firmly behind this effort and long-standing end user support in place, SMASH promises to be another widely-implemented distributed management standard from the DMTF."

The DMTF's SMASH is a suite of specifications that deliver architectural semantics, industry standard protocols and profiles to unify the management of the data center. The SMASH CLP provides a command line syntax that builds on the DMTF's Common Information Model (CIM) Schema, leveraging the richness of this information model so that systems offered by different vendors will be represented in similar ways. The SMASH CLP enables local and remote management of server hardware in both Out-of-Service and Out-of-Band management environments. SMASH also includes the DMTF's new SMASH Managed Element Addressing Specification, SMASH CLP-to-CIM Mapping Specification, SMASH CLP Discovery Specification, SMASH Profiles, as well as an SMASH Architecture White Paper.

The SMASH CLP demonstrations will be shown during the DMTF Technology Showcase at EMW, being held Monday, September 13, 5:30-8:30 p.m. EDT and Tuesday, September 14, 12:00-1:30 p.m. EDT.

About the DMTF

With more than 3,000 active participants, the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF) is the industry organization leading the development of management standards and integration technology for enterprise and Internet environments. DMTF standards provide common management infrastructure components for instrumentation, control and communication in a platform-independent and technology neutral way. DMTF technologies include information models (CIM), communication/control protocols (WBEM), and core management services/utilities. Information about DMTF's standards and activities can be found at www.dmtf.org.