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Company touts Insight Manager as compliant with emerging Web mgmt. standard.
Compaq Computer Corp. last week claimed that the new release of Insight Manager server management software is a Web-based Enterprise Management (WBEM)-compliant product. But that claim stretches the truth a bit.
WBEM is a standard that defines a way to manage enterprise network resources using Web-based and other Internet technologies. WBEM backers expect it to generate a new breed of tools for reducing the cost and simplifying the task of enterprise network management.
WBEM, announced in 1996 as a joint effort backed by BMC Software, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Compaq, has since garnered the support of more than 70 other vendors. But products conforming to WBEM have not made a stampede to market.
One of the core components of B BEM is Common Information Model (CIM). management data in describes standard format data in a standard format for in a heterogeneous network. However, CIM is very network. However, CIM in progress. very could be...