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OS/2 NEWS: SystemView Agent for OS/2 in beta
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (msavio@vnet.IBM.COM)
Sat Oct 21 11:18:00 1995
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 11:10:15 GMT
From: msavio@vnet.IBM.COM
Reply-To: msavio@vnet.IBM.COM
Submitted by: M. Savio (msavio@vnet.ibm.com)
Source: M. Savio (msavio@vnet.ibm.com)
Date received: 1995 September 22
Date posted: 1995 October 20
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KEY SYSTEMS VENDORS TO DEPLOY COMMON AGENT TECHNOLOGY
On September 19, 1995 Apple Computer,Inc., IBM Corporation, Ki NETWORKS,
Inc., and Sun Microsystems announced they are implementing common agent
technology, which allows system management information from diverse
hardware and software components to be consolidated and synthesized.
This technology protects customer investments in existing protocols such
as Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and the Desktop Management
Interface (DMI) because it supports existing management protocols while
facilitating DMI-enabled management platforms. Meanwhile, component
vendors benefit from a common instrumentation standard across different
operating systems.
Common agent technology provides a way for computers to integrate the
management of DMI-enabled components with components already supported
by an existing agent standard. The DMI simplifies management of a
desktop computing environment with diverse products and protocols. The
DMI provides a standard interface for communication between any
management applications and any system components.
IBM's implementation of the common agent technology, which is based on
SNMP, will be delivered as the SystemView Agent to be made available on
a variety of IBM and non-IBM platforms, including OS/2, AIX, Windows
3.1, Windows NT and Windows 95. Initial delivery of the SystemView
Agent has begun with a Beta program for OS/2 in August 1995. IBM also
will be licensing its common agent technology to other systems vendors
to encourage the propagation of management for desktops.
