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Title:DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
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Created:Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:6497
Total number of notes:27359

3911.0. "X/Open XMP API" by GUIDUK::KANG (Jong 'John' Kang @SEO - Bellevue, WA) Fri Oct 16 1992 12:26

    Hello, 
    
    Could anyone enlighen me on the subject of X/Open XMP API?
    
          What is it? (a little detail please)
          Does (or Will) DECmcc support this?
    
    My customer's RFP calls for this support.
    
    Thanks.
    
    John
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3911.1TOOK::STRUTTManagement - the one word oxymoronFri Oct 23 1992 13:1723
    XMP is the X/Open Management Protocols API.
    
    It was based on an earlier protocol from Bull (and others) referred to
    as CMA or CMapi - common management API.
    
    This API is intended to allow applications to access objects
    independent of the management protocol used by the object's agent.
    
    The approach that they've taken is to define an API that supports the
    union of the two protocols CMIP and SNMP - thus you pretty much have
    to know the protocol spoken by the agent anyway.  Add to that the need
    to use XOM (the X/Open OSI Abstract Data Manipulation API - originally
    developed for use with XDS - the X/Open Directory Services API) and you
    have a pretty complext beast.
    
    DECmcc does not currently support this API - we have the mcc_call API
    which does the same, and more.  However, as the XMP API will be part of
    the OSF/DME and as DECmcc will be migrating to include the DME, then we
    will be making XMP available.  Hopefully, we can provide XMP support
    before the DME is released from OSF - however, we do not have firm plan
    dates yet.
    
    Colin