SMI-S profiles help!!!

[Alfredo Fernández Farray]

Hi there...

I`m reading the SMI-S standard right now and want to know what is the meaning of a profile, subprofile, etc. Is it a new way of MIB, when talking about SNMP instead of WBEM?

Please help me...

Regards,

Alfred.

[SteveP]

 

 

SMI-S and CIM use classes (instances of classes) to represent the management information.

A profile is a collection of class that used as a pattern to represent a real world item.

 

SMI-S defines a CIM_Package (physical package), CIM_StorageExtent ( data storage ), CIM_SataPort (the connection), and more. The "Disk Drive" profile

uses these and a few more to represent a disk drive.

 

A subprofile ( now called a Component Profile) defines a "profile" that is a re-useable part of a bigger profile. The "Array" profile can include multiple

instances of the "Disk Drive" Component profile. As a real world array may have many disks.

 

     Steve Peters 

[Steve]

CIM is a object oriented information model, as opposed to a relational IM.

A profile describes how to use the model to accomplish given behaviors.

MIB is a meta model not a IM. CIM also has meta model. A specific MIB Like that from FC, is like CIM.