SMI-S Over WS Management: A Progress Report

“Web Services for Management” (‘WS-Man’) is the first specification in support of the DMTF initiative to expose CIM resources via a set of Web services protocols. By identifying a core set of Web service specifications and usage requirements to expose a common set of operations that are central to all systems management, WS-Management has the ability to: • DISCOVER the presence of management resources and navigate between them • GET, PUT, CREATE, and DELETE individual management resources, such as settings and dynamic values • ENUMERATE the contents of containers and collections, such as large tables and logs • SUBSCRIBE to events emitted by managed resources • EXECUTE specific management methods with strongly typed input and output parameters SMI-S has included the DMTF- standard WS-Man as an optional transport protocol (instead of CIM/XML) for several versions. Now, SMI-S v1.6 is making that a reality. How much change will this mean for SMI-S? Who is doing the Standards work, and when will they be done? Learn about WS-Man, and why it offers some advantages over CIM/XML. More importantly, learn about what changes this could mean for your current and future implementations of SMI-S, in both providers and client applications.

Learning Objectives

Basic understanding of WS-Management
I like CIM/XML and it works well enough, so why should SMI-S change? (More importantly, why should I change my implementation?)"
OK, I’m convinced, but who is going to do the work to get WS-Man into SMI-S v1.6? (And when are they going to finish?)