The creation and adoption of "standards" help to bring about
interoperability. Within the management area, the Web Services Distributed
Management (WSDM) specification, currently being developed within OASIS, is
an attempt to bring about interoperability for the management of distributed
computing environments. It essentially defines a protocol for
interoperability of management information and capabilities via web services.
This article provides you with a few thoughts on how WSDM could be applied in
practice, and why this particular initiative is so important in aligning IT
and business.
Before looking into the utilization of WSDM, let's first quickly examine why
the standard is being created. After all, there are standards currently in
place for management, such as SNMP, JMX and WMI, to name a few. However,
while these standards are effective in managing specifi... (more)