Introduction

Today, the administration of large systems is largely an art that uses ad-hoc tools and propietary administration agents, with little resilience to change and emergencies.

AdCIM is a project that defines a framework and application that tackle several aspects of large scale administration to model administration data using the CIM model and to gather them in a a coherent and integrated whole.

To make this usable, the framework uses technologies like XML, XSLT, LDAP and XForms to ease the system administrator work in developing AdCIM-enabled applications.

What is AdCIM?

AdCIM is a software architecture that allows centralized, devolved and standard-based administration of distributed system infrastructures. There are several elements that cooperate to accomplish this objective: