E-business standards group OASIS approved Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) as a standard, eliminating a key barrier for the broader adoption of Web services.
Created by IBM, HP, Computer Associates, BMC Software, WSDM lets programmers write management applications using Web services (define) that may be controlled by many users through one interface. Developers will use the document to write an integration layer between managers and the various protocols used in software.
WSDM consists of two specifications, Management Using Web Services (MUWS) and Management Of Web Services (MOWS), OASIS said in a statement.
MUWS specifies how programmers may represent the manageability interfaces of resources as Web services, defining resource identity, metrics and configuration. This spec also provides a management event format for better correlation.
MOWS defines how to manage Web services and how to access them using MUWS, ensuring that Web services applications interoperate across enterprises.
