Microsoft Manages Solaris!
Wow! This is big. Microsoft just announced that they will be able to manage Solaris 10 systems from their Systems Center product. This is in addition to support for various Linux systems as well.
This cross platform support uses the latest management standards from the DMTF, including WS-Management and CIM. Microsoft actually installs a CIMOM on the OS to be managed. This common infrastructure is used to host the Microsoft created CIM provider that instruments the operating system.
The CIMOM that is used is the Open Pegasus CIMOM from The Open Group . 
As part of the announcement, Microsoft pledged to work with the Open Pegasus community to put back their changes. They will also take part in the steering committee. This is great news, and I want to welcome them to the open source community. The folks that are participating even have their own blog.
This cross platform support uses the latest management standards from the DMTF, including WS-Management and CIM. Microsoft actually installs a CIMOM on the OS to be managed. This common infrastructure is used to host the Microsoft created CIM provider that instruments the operating system.
The CIMOM that is used is the Open Pegasus CIMOM from The Open Group . As part of the announcement, Microsoft pledged to work with the Open Pegasus community to put back their changes. They will also take part in the steering committee. This is great news, and I want to welcome them to the open source community. The folks that are participating even have their own blog.
