Service Operations
CategoryWeb Services Standards
Application services form a logical network often spanning department and enterprise boundaries. Managing such logical network is critical for organizations that deploy web information resources to automate and integrate various business functions with clients and partners.
Standards Overview
Management Of and Using Application Services
Manageability of application service endpoints can be automated using a layer of management application services. Further, management of distributed web-based resources of any nature can also be achieved using a management service layer. A flexible, common framework for manageability interfaces using service protocols enables easier and more efficient mechanisms to supervise and control IT resources that support business operations.
To promote interoperability between control systems and supervised web resources, a management framework defines a common set of operations central to Systems Management: manage lifecycle of individual resource instances, enumerate resource collections, and process events emitted by IT components.
The following publications describe standard metadata for managing elements of IT infrastructure:
- ISO/IEC 17963 — Web Services for Management (WS-Management)
- DMTF DSP0226 — Web Services for Management (WS-Management)
- DMTF DSP0227 — WS-Management CIM Binding Specification
- DMTF DSP0230 — WS-Management CIM Mapping Specification
- DMTF DSP0198 — WBEM Glossary
- DMTF DSP0200 — CIM Operations over HTTP
- DMTF DSP0201 — Representation of CIM in XML
- DMTF DSP0202 — CIM Query Language (CQL) Specification
- DMTF DSP0205 — WBEM Discovery Using the Service Location Protocol (SLP)
- DMTF DSP0207 — WBEM URI Mapping
- DMTF DSP0210 — CIM-RS Protocol
- DMTF DSP0211 — CIM-RS Payload Representation on JSON
- DMTF DSP0212 — Filter Query Language
- DMTF DSP0214 — Server Management Command Line Protocol (SM CLP)
- DMTF DSP0215 — Server Management Managed Element (SM ME)
- DMTF DSP0216 — SM CLP to CIM Common Mapping
- DMTF DSP0223 — Generic Operations Specification
- DMTF DSP0231 — CIM Simplified Policy Language (CIM-SPL)
- WSDM-MUWS 1.1 - Part 1 — WSDM 1.1: Management Using Web Services (MUWS) - Part 1
- WSDM-MUWS 1.1 - Part 2 — WSDM 1.1: Management Using Web Services (MUWS) - Part 2
- WSDM-MOWS 1.1 — WSDM 1.1: Management of Web Services (MOWS)
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Application service providers expose APIs for managing resource state information, enumerating over a dataset, and sending notifications upon resource-related event occurrences.
Management APIs rely on a common information model that defines generic metadata for managing computing systems and networks.
Standard management message formats facilitate interoperability across control platforms and tools.