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New Spec to Manage Software and Hardware as a Service


By Yvonne L. Lee
November 1, 2004 —  A new specification being developed by will make it possible to build Web services that manage enterprise hardware and software.

The specification, called WS-Management, profiles network hardware and software, and works with other Web services specifications, including WS-Security and WS-ReliableMessaging, said John Tollefsrud, director of standards for N1 Grid Systems at Sun Microsystems Inc., one of the companies working on the specification. Advanced Micro Devices, Dell, Intel, and Microsoft are the others. “Monitoring the health of that environment requires a lot of integration of these resources,” he said.

As an example, Pete McKiernon, lead product manager for Microsoft Corp.’s platform strategy group, said a service could discover that a printer has a defective part, and then both alert the IT staff and order a new part. This would integrate both financial applications and traditional network monitoring, he said.

“The unique thing about this approach is that it’s looking at building management at the outset. Today management is an afterthought,” said McKiernon.

Although the specification could be used solely in software, part of it could be integrated into hardware as well, and be used to manage hardware from servers to printers to networks, McKiernon said.

Microsoft plans to support WS-Management in the next releases of Windows Server and Operations Manager. Intel plans to support it in its platform building blocks and will announce specific plans later.

The participating companies in mid-October presented the specification to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), an industry consortium that deals with management specifications.


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