WS-Management
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WS-Management is a specification of a SOAP-based protocol for the management of servers, devices, applications and more. The specification is based on DMTF open standards and Internet standards for Web Services and was published in March, 2005 by a group of companies, including AMD, Dell, Intel, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and others.
WS-Management provides a common way for systems to access and exchange management information across the IT infrastructure. The specification is quite rich, supporting much more than get/set of simple variables, and in that it is closer to WBEM or Netconf than to SNMP. A mapping of the DMTF-originated Common Information Model into WS-Management was also defined.
[edit] Implementations and Application Support
- Microsoft's operating systems Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista include Windows Remote Management (WinRM), which is Microsoft’s implementation of the WS-Management standard.[1] WS-Management support is also available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.[2]
- Using WS-Management, Windows PowerShell 2.0 allows scripts and cmdlets to be invoked on a remote machine or a large set of remote machines.[3]
- Novell is working to develop an open source implementation of the WS-Management specification for SUSE Linux Enterprise.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Windows Vista Management Features. Retrieved on 2007-12-12.
- ^ WinRM: Remote Management Across the Internet. Retrieved on 2007-12-12.
- ^ What's New in CTP of PowerShell 2.0. Retrieved on 2007-12-12.
- ^ Microsoft and Novell Announce Technical Collaboration for Customers. Retrieved on 2007-12-12.
