New Web services specification to make life easier for sysadmins

By Steve Malone

Posted on 11 Oct 2004 at 12:59

A group of leading PC companies has announced its support for the Web Services Management specification, formerly known as WMX. The consortium says that this new Web services specification will ease the lives of IT managers by creating a standard way for systems to access and exchange information across their entire IT systems.

WS-Management aims to allow IT personnel plug and play access a wide range of devices on their networks, even if they are brand new, turned off or otherwise unavailable. The group envisages that WS-Management will support a wide range of products from PDAs up to datacentres.

The groups says that the specification is designed to bring rich security, reliability and transactional features

The group of companies which intend to support WS-Management includes AMD, Dell, Intel, Microsoft and Sun. The group intends to present the specification to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) to be adopted as an industry wide standard.