A Manageability Infrastructure for the Monitoring of Web Service Compositions

The management of web service composition, where the employed atomic web services as well as the compositions themselves are offered on basis of Service Level Agreements (SLA), implies new requirements for the management infrastructure. In this paper, the authors introduce the conceptual design and implementation for a standard-based and flexible manageability infrastructure offering comprehensive management information for an SLA-driven management of web service compositions. Their solution thereby is based on well-understood methodologies and standards from the area of application and web service management, in particular the WBEM standards.