SML improves management automation

On July 31, 10 IT vendors published the Service Modeling Language specification to improve the automation of management systems. SML provides a consistent way to describe system information about networks, applications, servers and other IT resources. The primary goal of SML is to increase the level of automation in IT systems management. In the context of systems and network management, the technology can be used to interpose an SML-based controller between the resource manager and the actual resources. This brings management of the resources one level higher, to the point where management interactions are handled via the exchange of models describing the resources' desired state.