WAVV Requirement Form

 

Date: 10/17/2008                                          Requirement #:  WAVV200904

Product Name:           z/VM   Product Release# (or state “current”): current

Vendor Name:           IBM

 

Title: (Paraphrase problem in a single statement)Add SNMP metric retrieval support to VSWITCH

Detailed Problem Description: (Description of what you want changed - 400 character entry limit)

 

Add SNMP MIB2 support for CP VSWITCH simulation

                                                                                            

Priority: (Select one: Urgent - High - Medium - Low) Medium

Requested Completion Date: (When? Examples: 3 months, 1 year, Next Release) Next Release

Requirement Type: (Select one: Acceptability - Compatibility/Migration - Ease of Use - Feature/Function - Performance - Reliability/Availability/Serviceability - Packaging - Interoperability)

Interoperability

Business Justification: (Why? Non-technical business case description. Do not reword Detailed Problem Description from above. What are the benefits to be gained by your company, and the vendor and others?  Quantify: run time, dollars, manpower, etc.   Why should the vendor do this for the customer?)

 

Most network and system management packages rely on SNMP to monitor devices and performance counters. As CP is now providing network and storage virtualization services as well as compute services, SNMP measurement data retrieval is requied. Base minimum of MIB2 SMI is needed, more details would be even better.

Solution: (Optional)(Desired/undesired elements Note: Making a suggestion may limit a vendors ability to deliver a solution)

 

     

Impact: (Optional) (How will your company’s business be affected if a solution is not delivered?)

 

Impacts availability by not permitting integrated monitoring with other network elements. Will kludge something up if not provided, but would prefer to have it a part of the native CP networking support.

 

Author Name:            David Boyes                          Author Title: CTO

 

Company Name: Sine Nomine Associates                                                                 

 &         Address:            43596 Blacksmith Square

                                    Ashburn, VA, 20147, USA                           

 

Author E-mail:            dboyes@sinenomine.net

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