RE: [wsdm] Discovery of manageability endpoint

["Sedukhin, Igor S" <Igor.Sedukhin@ca.com>]

+1 to Fred :) 


-- Igor Sedukhin .. (igor.sedukhin@ca.com)
-- (631) 342-4325 .. 1 CA Plaza, Islandia, NY 11788

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Carter [mailto:fred.carter@amberpoint.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:56 PM
To: WSDM TC
Subject: Re: [wsdm] Discovery of manageability endpoint

Thus quoth Sedukhin, Igor S (~ 11-Dec-03 9:23 AM ~)...

> The next obvious problem that we need to solve for the interop 
> scenario discussed at the F2F is: given the functional endpoint 
> (service) WSDL find the manageability endpoint(s). I propose that we 
> discuss and allow ALL of the following possible solutions, however 
> pick one for the interop event show run.
> 
> Possible ways to discover manageability endpoint
> 
> 1. description of the manageability service (possibly with a set of 
> manageability endpoints) is embedded in the same WSDL along with 
> functional service with its endpoint(s). The manager detects 
> manageability service/endpoints by verifying the operation signatures 
> (WSDL 1.1) or interface extension tree (WSDL 2.0).
> 
> 2. The functional endpoint is ALSO a manageability endpoint (i.e. 
> implements functional and WSDM operations). In this case manager has 
> no confusion and issues management related requests to the same 
> endpoint that functional requests are issued to. The precise 
> implementation of such could be in the same code; the container that 
> adds management operations at the deployment time automatically; an 
> intermediary that appends manageability operations, sits in the 
> message path and takes care of management requests on behalf of the functional endpoint; etc.
> 
> 3. Both functional and manageability endpoints are published into the 
> same UDDI. For every service binding (UDDI) an instance info contains 
> a set of tModels each with a pointer to an overview document (WSDL). 
> There could be (and usually are) multiple tModels for a given UDDI binding.
> First instance info tModels has to be describing a functional endpoint 
> (UDDI requirement). Other tModels could be describing things like 
> security token service, etc. Therefore, description of the 
> manageability endpoint could also appear as yet another tModel in the 
> instance info list of a given UDDI binding. Manager merely 
> investigates all tModels in an instance info list looking for those 
> that implement WSDM manageability interfaces (WSDL 2.0) or 
> manageability operations (checking signatures in case of WSDL 1.1).
> 
> 4. Manager could use relationships: query at runtime or read from 
> descriptive metadata. This is yet to be discussed.
> 
> Possible ways to establish which manageability endpoint manages which 
> functional endpoint, given WSDL descriptions of both endpoints.
> 
> A. The manager establishes associations between functional and 
> manageability endpoints by exercising identification manageability 
> capability on the manageability endpoint (requests at runtime) and 
> compares the returned reference to the given WSDL information.
> 
> B. The manager establishes associations between functional and 
> manageability endpoint by comparing a WSDM-specific tag on the 
> wsdl:endpoint elements. For example <wsdl:endpoint name="Functional"
> wsdm:target="urn:abc">, <wsdl:endpoint name="Manageability" 
> wsdm:target="urn:abc">
> 
> C. Manager could use descriptive metadata e.g. relationships or 
> otherwise. For example <wsdl:endpoint name="Manageability"
> wsdm:target="urn:abc"> … <wsdm:target uri="urn:abc" 
> service="s:MyService" endpoint="Functional">. Or similar 
> metadata-based approaches are possible.
Or even the more pedestrian "name it" approach:
     <wsdl:endpoint name="foo" wsdm:MgmtEP="http://..."/> or, better yet (arguably),
     <wsdl:endpoint name="foo1"
        wsdm:MgmtEp=".../M-ilityEndPoint.wsdl#port(mgmtsvc/mgmtport)"/>
(where that last thing is the xPointer way of naming a port in a wsdl file, the WSDL file being that of the management endpoint in question.)
> 
> --* **Igor Sedukhin* .. (igor.sedukhin@ca.com)
> --* (631) 342-4325* .. 1 CA Plaza, Islandia, NY 11788
> 


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