Web Services Provisioning

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Contributors: IBM

17 Oct 2003
Updated 14 Oct 2004

This document describes the APIs and Schemas necessary to facilitate interoperability between provisioning systems in a consistent manner using Web services.">This document describes the APIs and Schemas necessary to facilitate interoperability between provisioning systems in a consistent manner using Web services.

WS-Provisioning describes the APIs and schemas necessary to facilitate interoperability between provisioning systems and to allow software vendors to provide provisioning facilities in a consistent way. The specification addresses many of the problems faced by provisioning vendors in their use of existing protocols, commonly based on directory concepts, and confronts the challenges involved in provisioning Web Services described using WSDL and XML Schema.

The specification defines a model for the primary entities and operations common to provisioning systems including the provisioning and de-provisioning of resources, retrieval of target data and target schema information, and provides a mechanism to describe and control the lifecycle of provisioned state.

Get the specification

If you would like to view earlier version of this specification, click on the following link:

• WS-Provisioning Draft Version (ZIP, October 2003)

Resources

• The OASIS Provisioning Services TC has already approved the Service Provisioning Markup Language as a version 1.0 standard.
  
  
• The Service Provisioning Markup Language is a standardized basis for common definitions and interfaces in generalized services provisioning.
  
  
• The IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager enables On Demand computing to improve server utilization.
  

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