As you can see, there are three new packages available to help manage OpenSolaris with the CIM standard. SUNWSblimCimClient is an OpenSolaris port of the SBLIM CIM Client. The SBLIM CIM Client for Java is an implementation of a WBEM services client that includes an IETF RFC 2614 compliant SLP client for CIM service discovery. It is intended to be used by management applications in all areas that leverage CIM technology such as SMI-S, SMASH, etc. This is the client side of the standard protocol. With this you can talk to what are called CIM Object Managers (CIMOMs).

The next package in the above list is a CIMOM. It is an OpenSolaris port of the popular OpenPegasus CIMOM. A CIMOM is essentially a request broker for CIM Objects that form the instrumentation of a system. The actual instrumentation is called a provider and can be written in C++ or Java and can run in the same process as the CIMOM, or in a separate process. OpenPegasus conforms to the latest DMTF Standards and is used by many vendors for SMI-S implementations.

The last package in the above list is SUNWopenwsman and is a port of the Open WS-Management protocol adapter for CIMOMs.

Openwsman is a project intended to provide an open-source implementation of the Web Services Management specification (WS-Management) and to expose system management information on the Linux operating system using the WS-Management protocol. WS-Management is based on a suite of web services specifications and usage requirements that exposes a set of operations focused on and covers all system management aspects.

The combination of all these packages provide a great foundation for the management of OpenSolaris and OpenSolaris based projects with a standard protocol using open source infrastructure.

Source/Kaynak : http://blogs.sun.com/mac/entry/managing_opensolaris_with_open_source