VendorHWManagement

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Summary

Customer request that we offer better support for main brand server OEM such as Dell, IBM and HP. Part of the problem is to integrate the vendor's management tools so that Ubuntu server can be managed from the central management console.

Note: This is not a simple port/maintain problem as it is likely to require direct involvement with the vendors before we are able to move forward on this.

Release Note

Inclusion of [Dell|HP|IBM] agents allows user to fully manage their Ubuntu based servers using the vendors management tools.

Rationale

In addition to validate/certify hardware, medium to large size IBM, Dell or HP customers often implement the vendore management tool to supervise their servers. For high level supervision, this requires tight integration with the OS. At this time Novell & RedHat are the only distros officially supported for these vendors supervision tools.

Use Cases

Bob has a datacenter which is allmost exclusively composed of [Dell|IBM|HP] machine. He has implemented [Vendor] management tool to supervise them but complains that he cannot do it with servers running Ubuntu.

Assumptions

Design

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Implementation

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UI Changes

Should cover changes required to the UI, or specific UI that is required to implement this

Code Changes

Code changes should include an overview of what needs to change, and in some cases even the specific details.

Migration

Include:

  • data migration, if any
  • redirects from old URLs to new ones, if any
  • how users will be pointed to the new way of doing things, if necessary.

Test/Demo Plan

It's important that we are able to test new features, and demonstrate them to users. Use this section to describe a short plan that anybody can follow that demonstrates the feature is working. This can then be used during CD testing, and to show off after release.

This need not be added or completed until the specification is nearing beta.

Outstanding Issues

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BoF agenda and discussion

Vendors (Priority)

  • System76 (1)
  • IBM (1)
    • Director/Tivoli
  • Dell (1)
  • Intel (1)
    • IMPI
    • AMT -> WSMAN (open source)

  • AMD (1)
    • ???
  • HP (1)
  • SUN (1)
    • Sun Management Center
  • SuperMicro (2)

    • Intelligent Management
  • Fujitsu Siemens (2)
    • Server View
  • Gigabyre (3)
    • Server MAnagement
  • Hitachi (3)
    • AMPHUS


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VendorHWManagement (last edited 2008-08-06 16:31:31 by localhost)