WS-MAN Web Services Management
DMTF’s Web Services Management (WS-Man) provides interoperability between management applications and managed resources, and identifies a core set of web service specifications and usage requirements that expose a common set of operations central to all systems management. WS-Man has been adopted and published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as ISO/IEC 17963:2013.
A SOAP-based protocol for managing computer systems (e.g., personal computers, workstations, servers, smart devices), WS-Man supports web services and helps constellations of computer systems and network-based services collaborate seamlessly.
The standard has the ability to:
- Get, put (update), create, and delete individual resource instances, 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
The protocol and transport in WS-Man have been decoupled, to ensure interoperability is not dependent on specific versions of encryption algorithms, such as Transport Layer Security (TLS).
DMTF welcomes feedback on our standards, but requires that individuals submitting comments first agree to our DMTF Feedback Policy.
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Work on the WS-Man standard takes place in DMTF’s Architecture Working Group. Join DMTF to participate.
DMTF Specifications
DSP # | Version | Title | Date | Comments | Versions |
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DSP0230 | 1.0.0 | WS-CIM Mapping Specification | 28 May 2008 | .pdf file. DMTF Standard | View |
DSP0227 | 1.2.0 | WS-Management CIM Binding Specification | 30 Jun 2011 |
.pdf file. DMTF Standard |
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DSP0226 | 1.2.0 | Web Services for Management (WS- Management) Specification | 30 Sep 2014 |
.pdf file. DMTF Standard |
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Schemas
DSP # | Version | Title | Date | Comments | Versions |
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DSP8037 | 1.0.0 | WS-Management Enumeration Operations WSDL | 8 Apr 2010 |
.wsdl file, DMTF Standard |
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DSP8036 | 1.0.0 | WS-Management Notification Operations WSDL | 8 Apr 2010 |
.wsdl file, DMTF Standard |
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DSP8035 | 1.0.0 | WS-Management Resource Access Operations WSDL | 8 Apr 2010 |
.wsdl file, DMTF Standard |
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DSP8034 | 1.0.0 | WS-Management Addressing XML Schema | 8 Apr 2010 |
.xsd file, DMTF Standard |
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DSP8033 | 1.0.0 | WS-Management Enumeration Operations XML Schema | 8 Apr 2010 |
.xsd file, DMTF Standard |
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DSP8032 | 1.0.0 | WS-Management Notification Operations XML Schema | 8 Apr 2010 |
.xsd file, DMTF Standard |
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DSP8031 | 1.0.0 | WS-Management Resource Access Operations XML Schema | 8 Apr 2010 |
.xsd file, DMTF Standard |
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DSP8019 | 1.2.0 | CIM Binding Schema | 30 Jun 2011 | .xsd file. DMTF Standard | View |
DSP8015 | 1.0.0 | WS-Management Protocol XML Schema | 16 Oct 2009 |
.xsd file, DMTF Standard |
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DSP8012 | 1.0.1 | WS-Management Identity Schema XSD | 25 May 2009 |
.xsd file, DMTF Standard |
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DSP8006 | 1.0.0 | WS-CIM Classhiertype XSD | 7 Apr 2008 |
.xsd file, DMTF Standard |
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DSP8005 | 1.0.0 | WS-CIM Qualifiers XSD | 7 Apr 2008 |
.xsd file, DMTF Standard |
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DSP8004 | 1.0.0 | WS-CIM Common XSD | 7 Apr 2008 |
.xsd file, DMTF Standard |
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