Managers Development Conference

Track - Web Services & Management

WSDM: Soup to Nuts
Heather Kreger, IBM

This session will introduce the attendees to the Web Services Distributed Management 1.0 Specifications for Management Using Web Services and Managemnet Of Web Services.  It will start with the Web services foundation upon which WSDM depends: WS-Addressing, WS-Resource Framework, and WS-Notification and then show how WDSM leverages those specifications. Key topics include: WSDM architectural tenets, WSDM Manageability Capabilities, WSDM Event Format, and WSDM Relationships. We will then review the MOWS specification for managing Web Services.

WSDM: Building Manageable Resources
TBD

This session will work through developing a WSDM Manageable Resources and then interacting with that resource as a manager. Key best practices and recommendations from the WSDM TC members will be illustrated while working an example.

WSDM: Managing Web services
Kirk Wilson, CA
Fred Carter, Amberpoint

Web services are no longer just hype - they are being sanctioned by the industry on two fronts, standards and products. Web services are being developed as the foundation of a new generation of business-to-business and application integration architectures. This places Web services technologies in a business critical role within most enterprises. The corollary to this is that the Web services and the applications that use them must be manageable, from end to end, through the firewalls. The business-to-business Web services applications require management solutions in kind. They must be platform and technology agnostic, available through firewall, internet friendly, and flexible. This presents new challenges and opportunities to management vendors. This session will explain how to develop Web services that are manageable using the OASIS WSDM MOWS standard including XML examples for describing the manageability interfaces for Web services and using them.

WDSM: Using WSDM to Access CIM Modeled Resources  
Heather Kreger, IBM
Andrea Westerinen, Cisco

This session will review the standards based WSDM-CIM mapping developed by IBM, HP, CA, and Cisco and submitted to WS-CIM Subgroup. This mapping shows how to represent CIM instances, associations, indications, and classes with WSDM. It also shows how to support other functions provided by CIMOMs, like queries, using WSDM, WS-Resource Framework, and WS-Notifications.

WS-Management Overview
TBD, Intel

This session provides an architectural overview of the WS-Management specification, a web services based systems management protocol that facilitates cross platform management. The session will also provide sample scenarios of common management problems and the use of WS-Management to address those issues. Key learning’s identified via feedback and interoperability workshops by WS-Management partners will also be shared and discussed.

The Wiseman project: An Open-Source Java Implementation of WS-Management
Akhil Arora, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

This talk will introduce the architecture of the wiseman project and will  walk developers through code fragments to illustrate writing management clients and providers in Java that speak the WS-Management protocol.

WS-Management: Using WS-Management to Improve Management of Mission Critical Applications in Heterogeneous Datacenter
TBD, Microsoft

Managing health and availability of the next generation of mission critical applications requires a distributed management model that provides a uniform way of managing various aspects of the application’s lifecycle including the application software, the application platform, the network infrastructure, the operating system and the hardware platform in all operational states. Because the modern datacenter in inherently heterogeneous the management model requires a standard access protocol and common semantics across the OS vendors, hardware suppliers, application platforms and software component vendors. It also requires that the application platform supports manageability as an integral part of the development process providing the necessary tools and guidance. If you ever built a mission critical application you understand the challenge. In this session you will learn how you can use Windows Longhorn with the its standard WS-Management protocol, Windows Communication Foundation and the wmi.net enhancements to overcome this challenge. You will also see that adding management instrumentation to your application is an intuitive and easy process that makes your application a part of the end-to-end management experience using standard enterprise tools.

WS-Management Reference Implementation
Josh Cohen, Microsoft

A tutorial on a very simple implementation of WS-Management.