WS-Management

To promote interoperability between management applications and managed resources, the WS-Management specification identifies a core set of Web service specifications and usage requirements to expose a common set of operations that are central to all systems management. This comprises the abilities 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.

WS-Management Catalog

WS-Management is agnostic of the format used to describe the management functionality or metadata of logical endpoints or "resources". The WS-Management Catalog specification is a practical starting point for discovering and organizing the management metadata needed by users of the protocol.

The entire set of metadata documents available from a WS-Management service is called the "catalog". This list of available logical endpoints, their summary forms, compatible actions, schemas, and WSDL representations loosely constitute the WS-Management Catalog.

Implementation

A WS-Management implementation for Java SE 5.0+ is available in open source at https://wiseman.dev.java.net.