Web Services Distributed Management: Management of Web Services (WSDM-MOWS) 1.1

OASIS Standard, 01 August 2006

Document identifier:

wsdm-mows-1.1-spec-os-01

Location:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsdm/wsdm-mows-1.1-spec-os-01.pdf

Technical Committee:

OASIS Web Services Distributed Management TC

Chair(s):

Heather Kreger, IBM, <kreger@us.ibm.com>

Editors:

Kirk Wilson, Computer Associates kirk.wilson@ca.com

Igor Sedukhin, Computer Associates.

Abstract:

The Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) specifications, as declared in the committee charter, define A) how management of any resource can be accessed via Web services protocols – Management Using Web Services, or MUWS, and B) management of the Web services resources via the former – Management Of Web Services, or MOWS. This document is the WSDM specification defining MOWS.

Status:

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Table of Contents

1 Introduction. 4

1.1 Terminology. 4

1.2 Notational conventions. 5

2 Architecture. 6

2.1 In-band and Out-of-band Manageability. 7

2.2 Application to Resources Exposed as Web Services. 7

2.3 Self-Management 8

3 Managing Web Services. 9

3.1 Responsibilities of the Implementations of the Manageability Endpoints. 9

3.2 Manageability at the Web service level 10

3.3 Using manageability of Web services endpoints. 10

4 Security Considerations. 12

4.1 Additional security considerations when managing Web services. 12

5 Web service manageability capabilities. 14

5.1 Common manageability capabilities. 14

5.1.1 Manageability References. 15

5.1.1.1 Operations. 16

5.1.1.1.1 GetManageabilityReferences. 16

5.2 Web service endpoint manageability capabilities. 16

5.2.1 Identity. 16

5.2.2 Identification. 17

5.2.2.1 Properties. 17

5.2.2.2 Events. 18

5.2.3 Metrics. 18

5.2.3.1 Information markup declarations. 19

5.2.3.2 Properties. 19

5.2.3.3 Events. 22

5.2.4 Operation Metrics. 22

5.2.4.1 Properties. 23

5.2.4.2 Events. 24

5.2.5 Operational State. 24

5.2.5.1 Information markup declarations. 24

5.2.5.2 Properties. 26

5.2.5.3 Events. 26

5.2.6 Operational Status. 27

5.2.6.1 Events. 27

5.2.7 Operation Operational Status. 28

5.2.7.1 Properties. 28

5.2.7.2 Events. 29

5.2.8 Request Processing State. 29

5.2.8.1 Information markup declarations. 30

5.2.8.2 Events. 31

5.2.8.2.1 RequestProcessingNotification message. 35

5.2.8.2.2 Examples of events against the Web service endpoint request processing state. 37

6 References. 40

6.1 Normative. 40