Supervision of the CORBA environment with SUMO: a WBEM/CIM-based management framework

This paper presents the results of the SUMO R&D project led by CNES (French Space Agency) and developed by Alcatel TITN Answare and IRIT Research laboratory. This project provides an innovative approach for a global and distributed management system involving object-oriented technologies such as CIM, CORBA and Java. As SUMO is based on CORBA, the first part makes a general presentation of SUMO concepts and focuses on the ways CORBA has been used. The second part presents extensions that were made to SUMO to offer integrated management services (in particular fault tolerance and security) to the CORBA environment. Finally, the last part presents an example of use of SUMO and SUMO services, addressing SUMO self-management. As a result, this paper is both presenting results of the utilisation of CORBA, and at the same time solutions for managing and offering services to CORBA