Welcome to Openwsman

Openwsman is a project intended to provide an open-source implementation of the Web Services Management specification (WS-Management) and to expose system management information on the Linux operating system using the WS-Management protocol. WS-Management is based on a suite of web services specifications and usage requirements that exposes a set of operations focused on and covers all system management aspects.

The openwsman project is maintained by Intel's Open-Source Technology Center.

OpenwsmanGuide is a good place to start.

Enjoy!
The Openwsman Team

Web Services for Management

WS-Management addresses the cost and complexity of IT management by providing a common way for systems to access and exchange management information across the entire IT infrastructure. By using Web services to manage IT systems, deployments that support WS-Management will enable IT managers to remotely access devices on their networks - everything from silicon components and hand-held devices to PCs, servers and large-scale data centers. WS-Management is the first specification in support of the DMTF initiative to expose CIM resources via a set of Web services protocols.

Latest Release is 1.5.1

For more information about how to download this release, see OpenwsmanDownload. A list of the changes can be found in the ChangeLog.

Starting Points

• Main sourceforge project page
• Mailing Lists
• Openwsman Project Introduction
• Openwsman User Guide
• Download Source or RPMs
• Related projects and products
• Setup WS-management on Windows Vista
• Testing Openwsman
• Development and Coding Issues
• On writing a server plugin
• Openwsman Roadmap

Openwsman Feature Documentation

• WS-Eventing in Openwsman (Currently in Development)

Development Sub-projects

• openwsman - WS-Management server.
• wsmancli - WS-Management command-line client.
• rwsman - Ruby bindings for Openwsman.
• railsapp - A simple Ruby On Rails application demoing the Ruby bindings for Openwsman.
• mod_wsman - WS-Management Module for Apache integration.
• opentestman - "black box" testing framework for WS-Management and CIM Profiles
• requesthandler - A WS-Management request handler for openwbem (In a very early development stage)