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Subject: Re: [soa-rm-ra] Management Model section after comments of this week


Monitoring in real world is mostly external - network monitoring, event monitoring, business response monitoring. However, internal service monitoring is the thing very well known, e.g., in Java, under the nae of JMX. Internal service components have a capability to report about recognised internal events, invocations and taken actions to the central entity. I used this on several occasions and there is nothing about 'private' for the SOA ecosystem.

I am not sure we have to g with such details as types of monitoring, there is no specifics for services. Nonetheless, if the relationships between entities are based on the contracts (including SLA), monitoring becomes a means of contract management, and this is special for service orientation, I think. I will write about this in the doc.

- Michael



-----Original Message-----
From: Laskey, Ken <klaskey@mitre.org>
To: mpoulin@usa.com <mpoulin@usa.com>; soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org <soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Sat, Apr 2, 2011 7:56 pm
Subject: RE: [soa-rm-ra] Management Model section after comments of this week

re "monitoring management":
So there seems to be a management element that can identify things that 
MUST/SHOULD be monitored.  Individual services have internal monitoring that may 
be made available to the ecosystem but I think this is basically private.  The 
ecosystem management may specify a guidance, e.g. a uniform way, for making 
internal monitoring visible to the ecosystem.  Some of this may be necessary for 
the ecosystem management to do its job.

Does this make sense and where does it fit in?

I recall that a while back when we were deciding what still needed to be in the 
RAF, there was a suggestion for monitoring although there was nothing specific 
about what needed to be said.

Ken

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From: mpoulin@usa.com [mpoulin@usa.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 7:16 AM
To: soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [soa-rm-ra] Management Model section after comments of this week

 1.  I am not sure how anybody can manage events. IMO, one can choose which 
events to observe/monitor/recognise and to react to. This does require 
management. If we agree with this, the question is: what we can do with the 
knowledge of the event, how we can use it in SOA ecosystem and whether this 
usage requires any management? So, my response to these question is that SOA 
ecosystem  1) can choose events to monitor; 2) use the knowledge about events to 
trigger service execution or an execution of the part of the service (yes, 
service has body=implementation and the latter has its parts that can monitor, 
recognise, analyse, make decisions and act upon events, by themselves or by 
orchestrating other services)
 2.  I've listed the things below just to explain that management of service 
combination is much more than management of configuration; service may be 
combined not only via re-configuration.In the document I will not list all 
mentioned things but only the ons that specific to SOA/services.
 3.  I agree that Performance Management may be expressed as one united are with 
two/three sub-areas and their inter-relationship.

From here, I am going to massage the text and would like to discuss the scope of 
SOA ecosystem in general.

- Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Laskey <klaskey@mitre.org>
To: mpoulin@usa.com; boris.lublinsky@navteq.com; soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org
Sent: Fri, Apr 1, 2011 3:45 am
Subject: RE: [soa-rm-ra] Management Model section after comments of this week

1.       I think events have to be more than invocations.  A service consuming a 
lot of bandwidth may be an event that requires a response from management. 
Deciding the response likely falls under other management but the monitoring 
itself is needed.  If everything relates to an invocation, then maybe service 
invocation is sufficient, but I don’t think you want to go there.  I’d stick 
with monitoring.
2.       As you list things below to fall under Combination or Composability, 
the list becomes too diverse and has no focus for what is really being managed.  
Everything requires some degree of management and when we decide something needs 
to specifically be called out, it needs to be clear why the SOA ecosystem 
requires something beyond traditional management.
3.       I think all aspects of performance should be in one place.  Otherwise, 
it seems like you’re splitting hair to break some out and not others.
Ken
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From: mpoulin@usa.com<mailto:mpoulin@usa.com> [mailto:mpoulin@usa.com<mailto:mpoulin@usa.com?>]
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 7:44 AM
To: boris.lublinsky@navteq.com<mailto:boris.lublinsky@navteq.com>; 
soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org<mailto:soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: Re: [soa-rm-ra] Management Model section after comments of this week

Boris,
I think that our task is not to set a status of "disagree" but to find a 
solution to resolve the disagreement.

1.     About Event Manageability. It seems to me that "service invocation 
manageability" might work because I certainly do not want to manage events that 
may be even outside of SOA ecosystem. Also, I do distinguish (despite of EDA 
vision) between the event and reporting of this event. A consideration I use is 
this: if nobody (in given realm) listens to/monitors the event, this does not 
mean that the event has not happened; one event may cause another event  - a sad 
example: an earthquake causes a tsunami - and, if we discard the initial event 
as non-existed but we recognise the caused event, we have to deal with things 
without reasons, out of the blue, which is not natural and unacceptable to me.
So, an events selection manageability is a sort of a view inside and outside the 
SOA ecosystem for the service invocation triggers.
2.     I do respect IBM’s viewpoint but they proofed they are not very fast with 
changes and they still take SOA service as a Web Service in several of their 
even modern applications and papers while others (e.g. Dr. Marc Fiammante)  are 
quite in synch with what we do in OASIS.
So, a service, even a composite or aggregate service depends only on 
functionality it needs from others. Considering an explicit contracts and a 
possibility of the trusted realm, a service (and its implementation like a 
process)  may not and do not need to know who actually provides required 
functionality.
By Combination or Composability Management I mean (but may be did not use proper 
words to articulate) a management of service capabilities to be used in the 
combinations or to combine others for providing solution for common task. This, 
particularly, includes: special relationship between business  services and Data 
Services / Data Access Layer, enforcement of policies related to the granularity 
of interfaces, management of information stores/repositories for meta-data, 
management of the processes and procedures – development and run-time – that 
result in new service combinations (which may include as integration as testing 
aspects), and so on. I hope, you’ve got the picture. Configuration management 
may also take place among others in this domain but, IMO, it is certainly not 
the major one.
3.     The last one – management of business performances – do require and use 
SLA and SLA management but the letter is not always a visible part of the 
former. This is why I put them separately: the SLA management can still be 
provisioned at many different levels (including pure technical ones) while 
management of business performances may be more laid around business KPI.
What do you think?
- Michael

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From: Lublinsky, Boris <boris.lublinsky@navteq.com<mailto:boris.lublinsky@navteq.com>>
To: mpoulin@usa.com<mailto:mpoulin@usa.com> <mpoulin@usa.com<mailto:mpoulin@usa.com>>; 
boris.lublinsky@navteq.com<mailto:boris.lublinsky@navteq.com> 
<boris.lublinsky@navteq.com<mailto:boris.lublinsky@navteq.com>>; 
soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org<mailto:soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org> 
<soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org<mailto:soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org>>
Sent: Thu, Mar 31, 2011 12:25 am
Subject: RE: [soa-rm-ra] Management Model section after comments of this week
Do you see events manageability as service invocation manageability? I do not 
think I see it this way
On everything else,
Let’s see we agree to disagree
What you call composability I call dependence – see IBM’s service model – a 
service can have both interfaces and dependencies
For me also, business performance requires SLA

From: mpoulin@usa.com<mailto:mpoulin@usa.com> [mailto:mpoulin@usa.com<mailto:mpoulin@usa.com?>]
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 5:18 PM
To: boris.lublinsky@navteq.com<mailto:boris.lublinsky@navteq.com>; 
soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org<mailto:soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: Re: [soa-rm-ra] Management Model section after comments of this week

Boris, at a glance:
·         Event Monitoring Manageability is mandatory IMO because it is not 
about notifications but about managing selection of events that trigger the 
services.
·         I do not understand "Dependency manageability" because service do not 
depend on other services; instead, they depend on functionality of an arbitrary 
trusted provider (IBM Dynamic Process Edition allowed having a 'basket' of 
potential providers where the process picked up the actual one when needed on 
the fly 9not a discovery mechanism); no end-points were configured up-front). 
This is not a programmatic dependency, which many would read into.
·         Combination or Composability Management  is about managing 
combinations of services that might be realised w/ or w/o configuration, i.e. 
via design (composition) or orchestration (aggregation), by both service 
provider and consumer. The fact that existing BPM tools require configuration 
does not mean that they are the only possible ways of doing combinations. Also, 
do not forget about business domain where a service combination may requires 
just a new organisational chart :-)
·         Business Performance and Service Level Agreement are very different 
things, e.g. the former may have monetary expression while the latter - pure 
technical expression. Also, the best technical expressions (measurements and 
matrix) do not necessary lead to the best monetary expressions.

- Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Lublinsky, Boris <boris.lublinsky@navteq.com<mailto:boris.lublinsky@navteq.com>>
To: mpoulin@usa.com<mailto:mpoulin@usa.com> <mpoulin@usa.com<mailto:mpoulin@usa.com>>; 
soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org<mailto:soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org> 
<soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org<mailto:soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org>>
Sent: Wed, Mar 30, 2011 5:58 pm
Subject: RE: [soa-rm-ra] Management Model section after comments of this week
Here is my manageability proposal:
•         Lifecycle Manageability
•         Configuration manageability
o   Dependency manageability
•         Policies Manageability
•         Contracts manageability
•         Business Performance manageability
o   SLA Manageability


Event Monitoring Manageability is really about reporting and should not be there

From: mpoulin@usa.com<mailto:mpoulin@usa.com> [mailto:mpoulin@usa.com<mailto:mpoulin@usa.com?>]
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 5:52 AM
To: soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org<mailto:soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: [soa-rm-ra] Management Model section after comments of this week

Folks,
I have incorporated all comments and chnages into attached document. In some 
places, I have repeated the text (in different font) just to save and show the 
comments that I responeded insted but didn't change the text.
I am not sure what tactics we prefer now - to go through all left comments 
together in the meeting or for me to resolve each comment with particular author 
(in some cases I disagree with the comment, however).

Cheers,
- Michael
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