Mark Overgaard, Pigeon Point Systems
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Maturing VITA 46.11 to address VPX-specific needs
VITA 46.11, System Management on VPX, was adopted as a draft standard for trial use (DSTU) in late 2013. Since then, the VITA 46.11 working group has pursued a systematic plan to complete a fully ratified ANSI/VITA 46.11-2015, which was accomplished in June. This article describes that maturation work and highlights some of the key improvements made to the specification.
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Validating the interoperability of VITA 46.11-based system management elements
VITA 46.11 was adopted by the VITA Standards Organization (VSO) as a Draft Standard for Trial Use in November 2013. VITA 46.11 aims to enable the creation and integration of standardized, independently implemented, chassis and plug-in module system management components, reducing integration time and cost, as well as time to theatre. The article “System management on VPX: Leveraging VITA 46.11 for VPX plug-in modules,” in the Spring 2014 issue of VITA Technologies introduced the standard, with an emphasis on its plug-in module level.
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System management on VPX: Leveraging VITA 46.11 for VPX plug-in modules
In November 2013, after several years of work, VITA 46.11 was adopted as a Draft Standard for Trial Use in the VPX community. The draft standard defines components, interfaces, mechanisms, and general infrastructure to support the implementation of an interoperable management subsystem within VPX that enables features such as inventory, sensor, and diagnostic management, as well as system configuration and recovery. In the absence of VITA 46.11, such features, if present in VPX systems, would be implemented as part of the application(s), rather than as a standardized layer serving the application(s). VITA 46.11 aims to enable, for the system management aspects of applications, many of the same benefits that COTS hardware has long provided: lower cost and quicker application development and system upgrades.
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Implementing system management in OpenVPX
The high-energy campaign to complete the OpenVPX standard has been complemented by a parallel effort to define a generic system management layer for use in OpenVPX and other VPX systems. The resulting VITA 46.11 architecture and corresponding implementation considerations are presented.
