A.6. SERVICE MANAGEMENT STANDARDS
We have a few standards that are trying to provide a uniform way to manage a service after it has been put into production. Management tasks include:
Check to make sure that a service is up and running.
View the performance statistics of a service.
View the usage statistics of a service.
Let a service notify an agent when it is experiencing problems.
In SOA, where you have services running in several different vendors' platforms, it may be hard to track down the source of a problem. A standardized interface for management will foster development of management tools that can work with many different SOA platforms.
The Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) is attempting to standardize management. It has two parts. First, Management Using Web Services (MUWS) provides a way to manage any generic resource. A resource can be a television set or a remote weather station. Second, Management of Web Services (MOWS) extends MUWS when a Web Service is a resource that needs to be managed.
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