Diplomarbeit

The continuing evolution of computer technology from the mini computer at beginning to the networked computers today pushed the self-contained and isolated environments of the beginning into distributed and heterogeneous environments across organization, platform and technology boundaries. Today Web Services are thought as the most applicable mechanism to overcome these barriers. Because of the platform- and technology independence Web Services are used as the key technology on the top of the existing network infrastructure to realize a connected world in a heterogeneous environment. The demand of customers to reduce cost and to have interoperable services drives the evolution of distributed management. The goals are to define appropriate business and management abstraction and services, which should be interoperable across different management solutions and operating domains. To make it happen, standard organizations build broad alliance and are working closely together on common semantic and models, integrated business and management services. This process is a long-standing process and requires also support from all the software vendors of management solutions. The goal of this diploma project is to find a common and generic way to enable the interoperability between management solutions on top of the existing IT infrastructure. The research work is focusing on a well-working and generic manager-to-manager Interface between the different management solutions. Because the management solutions from different vendors (can) reside in a distributed and heterogeneous environment, the platform- and technology independence of Web Services should be fully utilized to overcome the barriers between different platform environments. Besides the standard Web Services stack, further Web Services specifications proposed by different software vendors or standards organizations, e.g. service composition, service policy, routing, security, addressing and so on, will be reviewed in depth for the usability in the scenario.