Storage Management Initiative -Simulator

Abstract: An SMI-S provider is a vendor-specific module that is used as independent management software. An SM I-S provider is responsible for the actual processing of CIM operations on managed resources. The SMI-S Provider translates CIM-fo rmatted requests into resource-specific operations and resource-specific operations to CIM-formatted requests. The SMI-S provider provides the mapping between the CIM interface and the resource -specific interface and contains the implementation for a set of CIM operations for a defined set of managed resources.

Keywords: SM I-S, CIM, W BEM, CIMCLI, SAN, CIM OM, CIM-XM L etc