COSMOS M2 Announcement

COSMOS 1.0M2 is NOW available

At a Glance

COSMOS 1.0M2 provides a number of new features that provide support for the emerging Configuration Management Database federation (CMDBf) standard, based on the CMDBf 1.0 specification (http://www.cmdbf.org):

• Framework for implementing CMDBf query and registration services
• Eclipse-integrated toolkit for creating data managers and management data repositories (MDRs)
• Ability to register an MDR with the COSMOS framework
• Ability to register and deregister an MDR with a federating CMDB, using the COSMOS UI
• Ability to query an MDR from the COSMOS UI, using query builder driven by CMDBf metadata
• Example MDRs, including a simplistic one and one based on the example data center
• Ability to visualize a CMDBf query response
• Support for deploying to J2EE environments (e.g. Tomcat)
• Full test suite showing implementation examples

These new features are in addition to the features that were provided in COSMOS 1.0M1:

• Tools that support systems management data conforming to the Service Modeling Language (SML) and SML-Interchange Format (SML-IF) standards (http://www.w3.org/Submission/2007/01/), including SML and SML-IF document validation, SML-IF editing, import of SML-IF documents and export to SML-IF documents
• Example data center described in SML format
• Standard APIs for accessing COSMOS data from heterogeneous clients
• Data collectors that gather data from Common Base Event (CBE) logs, JMX, and WSDM Event Format (WEF) sources
• Preset reports to visualize event and statistical data
• Data store to persist statistical information based on the standard SDMX specification (http://www.sdmx.org/)
• Relational data store for the persistence of event information and statistical information
• Web-based viewer composed of Web 2.0 gadgets to thoroughly examine data from SML-IF documents
• Extension points to create complementary visualizations in the form of Web 2.0 gadgets and BIRT reports

COSMOS 1.0 is currently targeted for a June 2008 release, in conjunction with the Eclipse Equinox release. Future work that is expected be included in the 1.0 release includes:

• SDD (Solution Deployment Descriptor) tooling
• SML 1.1 support
• Additional CMDBf support

Download

Download COSMOS 1.0M2 and reap the benefits: http://www.eclipse.org/cosmos/downloads/
As always, we welcome your participation and feedback via the newsgroup, and also hope you will actively "kick the tires" to report bugs and feature requests via Bugzilla.

The COSMOS Team