[oslc-core] Proposal for Performance Monitoring Workgroup

[Donald Cronin]

We would like to propose a new working group entitled Performance
Monitoring.

The goal of this workgroup is to define a common set of resource
definitions and RESTful services that can be used by lifecycle tools such
as operational dashboards, applications, and products to monitor resources.
The need for this workgroup is further driven by web operations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_operations .

Monitored resource definitions define the data about entities like
applications, computer systems, storage volumes, etc. commonly used to
observe a coarse-grained summary of a monitored resource's state, e.g. its
self-reported health. Some monitoring tools collect hundreds or more
individual metrics about a range of resources, it is NOT our intent to
reproduce that work in all its richness and detail. Only the subset needed
to satisfy the in-scope scenarios will be included in the resource
definitions, i.e. the subset that most/all tools would be able to provide
and that participants can readily agree on. The approach will be to define
a small number of tightly constrained scenarios, address those by drafting
specifications, collect implementation experience using those drafts, and
then close (finalize) those specifications. This will decrease the barrier
to sharing monitored data across multiple vendors and tools as part of the
Operations Lifecycle. Future iterations of that process may be used to
address additional scenarios and resource types.

The initial focus will be on application monitoring. This is a key resource
type today. There are many other areas of monitoring that could be covered
in the future such as storage, network, computer system, etc. The workgroup
will be led by Pratik Gupta and Julianne Bielski.

Steve Speicher could you please add this to the next Core agenda.

Thanx

Regards,

Donald Cronin
Program Director, Tivoli Technical Strategy and Architecture
IBM Software Group
                                                                                        
                                                                                        
                                                                                        
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