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).

Get Involved

Work on the WS-Man standard takes place in DMTF’s Architecture Working GroupJoin DMTF to participate. 

DMTF welcomes feedback on our standards, but requires that individuals submitting comments first agree to our DMTF Feedback Policy.

DMTF Specifications

DSP # Version Title Date Comments Versions
DSP0230 1.1.0 WS-CIM Mapping Specification 30 Jun 2011 Standard View
DSP0227 1.2.0 WS-Management CIM Binding Specification 30 Jun 2011 Standard View
DSP0226 1.2.0 Web Services for Management (WS- Management) Specification 30 Sep 2014 Standard View

Schemas

DSP # Version Title Date Comments Versions
DSP8037 1.0.0 WS-Management Enumeration Operations WSDL 8 Apr 2010 Standard View
DSP8036 1.0.0 WS-Management Notification Operations WSDL 8 Apr 2010 Standard View
DSP8035 1.0.0 WS-Management Resource Access Operations WSDL 8 Apr 2010 Standard View
DSP8034 1.0.0 WS-Management Addressing XML Schema 8 Apr 2010 Standard View
DSP8033 1.0.0 WS-Management Enumeration Operations XML Schema 8 Apr 2010 Standard View
DSP8032 1.0.0 WS-Management Notification Operations XML Schema 8 Apr 2010 Standard View
DSP8031 1.0.0 WS-Management Resource Access Operations XML Schema 8 Apr 2010 Standard View
DSP8019 1.2.0 CIM Binding Schema 30 Jun 2011 Standard View
DSP8015 1.0.0 WS-Management Protocol XML Schema 16 Oct 2009 Standard View
DSP8012 1.0.1 WS-Management Identity Schema XSD 25 May 2009 Standard View
DSP8006 1.0.0 WS-CIM Classhiertype XSD 7 Apr 2008 Standard View
DSP8005 1.0.0 WS-CIM Qualifiers XSD 7 Apr 2008 Standard View
DSP8004 1.0.0 WS-CIM Common XSD 7 Apr 2008 Standard View

Open Source Projects using DMTF WS-MAN Technologies

DMTF technologies are leveraged in numerous third-party open source projects. If you are aware of any additional projects using DMTF technologies that are not included below, please contact us so we can add them to the list.
Open Source Project Description of Tool
Open Management Infrastructure (OMI)

OMI is an open source project to further the development of a production quality implementation of the DMTF CIM/WBEM standards.