The Moving Target

If this book is to be a practical text, then it must aim at a moving targetnew CIM models are appearing regularly from the DMTF, new companies are emerging almost hourly to supply tools and software to the new industry, and the open source implementations of the architecture are being enhanced regularly. I have tried to avoid focussing on details prone to rapid change, but a book that never descends to implementation detail is not useful. Where I have described interfaces or models not yet standardised , I have tried to point this out.

In particular, examples from the DMTF's models ( schemata ) in this book use the preliminary issue of version 2.8.