WSDM Available for public review

[Heather Kreger <kreger@us.ibm.com>]

Hi Carol and Jamie, 
Today WSDM submitted their committee
drafts for Member Review.  Hal Lockart suggested we send you a paragraph
or two about WSDM to help provide input to an item in the OASIS newsletter.


TC Submits OASIS WSDM 1.0 for Public
Review

The OASIS Web Services Distributed Management TC has approved the Web Services
Distributed Management: Management Using Web Services (MUWS) 1.0 and Web
Services Distributed Management: Management Of Web Services (MOWS) 1.0
specifications for public review. WSDM MUWS 1.0 defines how to represent
and access the manageability interfaces of resources as Web services. It
is the foundation of enabling management applications to be built using
Web services and allows resources to be managed by many managers with one
set of instrumentation. This specification provides interoperable, base
manageability for monitoring and control managers using Web services. WSDM
MUWS 1.0 has been defined in two specifications, MUWS Part 1, which defines
the base architectural concepts and required components, and MUWS Part
2 which defines standard composeable support for manageability capabilities.
WSDM MOWS defines the manageability model for managing Web services as
a resource and how to describe and access that manageability using MUWS.
The review will continue until 10 Jan, and comments are solicited from
all interested parties.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/committees/wsdm


A little more info if you need
it: 


The MUWS 1.0 specifications define
how to express the following manageability capabilities: identity, metrics,
resource state, status, configuration, name correlation, and relationships.
It defines standard descriptive techniques for each of these including
required base properties, operations, and notifications, as well as required
metadata for each of these to aid introspection. MUWS 1.0 also defines
standard management event formats to enhance interoperability and correlateability.
It defines how to provide secure management.  In addition MUWS 1.0
defines recommendations and interfaces for advertising and discovering
resources. 

Heather Kreger
STSM, Web Services Lead Architect for SWG Emerging Technologies
Author of "Java and JMX: Building Manageable Systems"
kreger@us.ibm.com
919-543-3211 (t/l 441)  cell:919-496-9572