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Goodbye SNMP? Hello, WS-Management

Posted by michael on from the at-least-it-isn't-an-acronym dept.

Laoping writes "News.com has a story about a new Web services management specification designed to simplify network administration across a wide range of devices. A bunch of a big tech companies developed it together (Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Dell and Sun). Microsoft will build support for WS-Management into an update to Windows Server, which is due late next year, and in the version of its Microsoft Operations Manager management software due in 2006. The .PDF release, that makes it clear that it is meant to be a Simple Network Management Protocol killer. Now I am all for a replacement for SNMP, but is this the way go?"

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  1. wonder by COMON$ · · Score: 5, Funny

    hmmm, I wonder if this will catch on as quickly as IPv6 has.....

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  2. War! by nuclear305 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Microsoft will build support for WS-Management into an update to Windows Server"

    Clearly this is war! SNMP and M$-Management will battle it out for the top market share...oh wait...

  3. The 'gotcha' by Tenebrious1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    To ensure interoperability of devices and to enable any one console to manage any device, there will now be the standard default login "BILL" and password of "MOMONEY" for all devices. Users are not advised to change any passwords otherwise universal control will not be achieved.

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  4. Re:but the important question is ... by networkBoy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Intel doesn't make RAM so the better statement would be:

    you'll need a 3.8GHz P4 and a chipset with a mail co-processor built in.
    -nB

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  5. They still have work to do... by LodCrappo · · Score: 4, Funny

    This new protocol simply cannot be adopted until it's fully acronymic... I mean come on, SNMP and WBEM and even CIM have been fully acronymous for some time now, and this WS-Management thing still has an entire word spelled out in the name? That won't fly in my shop, no sir.

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  6. That's just a myth. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    this page but without going blind

    Actually that's just a myth that your mother told you to keep you from spending all that time in the bathroom with the sears catalog.

  7. Glad I don't run Windows Server by Combuchan · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Microsoft will build support for WS-Management into an update to Windows Server"

    Once this support is built, I have a feeling that if you so much as ping a Windows server, regardless of whether it's enabled, it'll instantly give you full-administrator in some fun only-by-Microsoft way. Combining IIS and the management level that they're talking about seems to just beg for disaster.

    --sean

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  8. Re:What about WBEM? by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone know why this is suddenly being pushed, and not WBEM?

    Because it sounds too much like a radio station.

    Announcer: (in professional DJ as God voice) Listen in as the slashdot effects RAHWKS DOWN YOUR ROUTERS...
    with DOUBLE-U BEE EEEE EHM!!!

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