WS-Manageability: Concepts

Level: Advanced

Contributors: IBM, Computer Associates, Talking Blocks

15 Sep 2003

The WS-Manageability: Concepts document outlines the scope and definitions for the specification.

The WS-Manageability: Concepts document outlines the scope and definitions for the specification. It provides an overview of Web services architecture and implications for management of that architecture. The Concepts document further defines the role of the manager in the Web services architecture and provides practical information on manageability implementation patterns and discovery considerations.

This document is provided as a submission to the OASIS Web Services Distributed Management Technical Committee and to the Web service community in general.

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Resources

• The WS-Manageability specification introduces the general concepts of a manageability model in terms of manageability topics and the aspects used to define them.
  
  
• The WS-Manageability Representation document provides the interface definitions based on the model as WSDL 1.1 and GWSDL renderings.
  
  
• Federation in a Web services world describes the issues around federated identity management and a comprehensive solution based on the Web services model as outlined in the WS-Security roadmap.
  
  
• Download the Web Services Distributed Management specification.
  
  
• "Management Using Web Services: A proposed architecture and roadmap" describes a proposed architecture and roadmap for addressing the challenges of managing system resources in heterogeneous environments by using Web services.
  
  
• Management Using Web Services, a sub-specification of Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) is available in Part 1 and Part 2.
  

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