It’s started: the members of the OMC mailing list<\/a> are mulling ironing out a standard, or at least a standard way<\/i> to interface with their applications. The two threads of interest are Backend Format<\/a> and the aptly titled Backend Format – 2<\/a>, both started by Stanislav Ievlev, of ALT Linux<\/a>.<\/p>\n So far, XML-RPC has been thrown around the most as a potential candidate: it’s out of the box data types take care of the design work for you, though they can be limiting for more complex data structures<\/a>. And, as ever, there are security configuration concerns<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now’s your chance to get involved with the OMC. I know several people are looking at opening up their systems management platforms. Having sent people to all sorts of WS-* and other committees with slow results in code, this could be the chance to find out how the emergent, open source world communities hash things out quickly and innovates.<\/p>\n For example, it’d be a good chance for BMC to make the jump from blog post to implementation<\/a>. Any other of The Big 4 could do the same. In all cases, one of the head-honchos just needs to bless a developer-type to go out and make it happen ;><\/p>\n Disclaimer:<\/b> BMC is a client.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Technorati Tags: bmc<\/a>, omc<\/a>, sysmgmt<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Originally published on 06 June 2006, but reposted for server move.) It’s started: the members of the OMC mailing list are mulling ironing out a standard, or at least a standard way to interface with their applications. The two threads of interest are Backend Format and the aptly titled Backend Format – 2, both started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-systems-management"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}