Storage Management: The SNIA Technical Tutorial
This booklet provides a basic grounding in the history of network
management interfaces and interface definitions as a background and introduction to
the work being performed by the SNIA as part of the Storage Management
Initiative. It has contrasted the characteristics of predecessor definitions with the
SNIA SMI, and described how the richness of the information model and extensibility
of the definitions can support new functionality. It has provided an overview of
technology underlying the definitions produced by SMI and the application of
those definitions to the management of types of equipment commonly found in a
storage network. Development tools that are available to speed the adoption of
the underlying technologies in management applications have been described,
and future developments in those technologies anticipated. In short, the
booklet has provided a primer for SNIA members to the exciting developments in
management technologies now taking place. The SMI program in SNIA is building
toward the “holy grail” of storage management—namely, the situation in which an
application can discover a previously unseen type of device in a storage network
and immediately bind to it and provide a level of management functionality.
SNIA members are requested to use the information provided in this text and the
references contained in the appendices to enhance their products and management
applications and significantly simplify the administrative burden imposed by
storage networks, thus literally helping to fulfill the “efficient” part of
the SNIA mission.
Objectives of this text include:
- Define terminology used in established network management and developed
anew for storage networking
- Provide a brief history of the development of management tools for
networks, covering both the advent of the Internet and developments in the
Internet Engineering Task Force
- Describe current network management approaches, with particular
emphasis
on the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- Explain object modeling techniques, with specific reference to the
Common
Information Model (CIM) and related DMTF definitions
- Detail specific models of types of equipment found in a storage
network
- Introduce tools that can be used in the development of both management
applications and device support
- Highlight the goals of continuing development within the SMI
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