WS-Management addresses the cost and complexity of IT management by providing a common way for systems to access and exchange management information across the entire IT infrastructure. By using Web services to manage IT systems, deployments that support WS-Management will enable IT managers to remotely access devices on their networks - everything from silicon components and handheld devices to PCs, servers and large-scale data centers.
This specification identifies a core set of Web service specifications and usage requirements to expose a common set of operations that are central to all systems management. This comprises the abilities to:
- Discover the presence of management resources and navigate between them
- Get, Put, Create, Rename, and Delete individual management resources, such as settings and dynamic values
- Enumerate the contents of containers and collections, such as large tables and logs
- Subscribe to events emitted by managed resources
- Execute specific management methods with strongly typed input and output parameters
Related Specification and Web Service Standards
- WS-Management Catalog, 2005/06
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This specification defines a metadata format for the discovery of management functionality of resources, or endpoints. As WS-Management supports the concept of multiple logical endpoints residing at the same network address, this specification defines a construct for a list of available logical endpoints or "resources", their summary forms, compatible actions, schemas, and WSDL representations.
- WS-Addressing, 2004/08
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This specification defines a construct to identify/reference a Web service endpoint for access and for addressing messages between endpoints, and it defines a construct of message information headers allowing uniform addressing of messages independent of underlying transport.
- WS-Enumeration, 2004/09
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This specification defines a simple SOAP-based protocol for the transfer of large data sets. Enumeration of the data by the consumer is facilitated through a session abstraction, allowing the consumer to request XML element information items from the data source over the span of one or more SOAP messages.
- WS-Eventing, 2004/08
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This specification defines a protocol for a Web service to register interest with another Web service in order to receive messages about events. The subscriber may manage the subscription by interacting with a Web service designated by the event source.
- WS-Transfer, 2004/09
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This specification defines operations using Web services infrastructure for sending and receiving XML representations of a resource and for creating and deleting a resource and its corresponding representation.