Meanwhile, Tivoli Systems Inc and SunSoft Inc have picked up the Internet management specification ball, saying they will define an interface for configuring, monitoring and controlling Internet devices and access called the Internet Management Specification, IMS. Rather than trying to embrace each vendor’s own Net interface, the two claim Bay Networks Inc, Cisco Systems Inc, Netscape Communications Corp, Spyglass Inc and others have agreed already to support IMS application programming interfaces in their products. The two companies say IMS will enable system vendors to develop products that can manage multi-vendor server and network devices and enable users to configure, monitor and control Internet services, such as Netscape’s SuiteSpot applications, from a single IMS-compliant management application – if they can attract enough industry support. Tivoli and SunSoft are to create a draft specification defining Java classes and Object Management Group Corba Interface Definition Language application programming interfaces for managing the Internet. The classes will run under all Java-enabled Internet environments.
