Short for Web-Based Enterprise Management, WBEM is a set of management and
Internet standard
technologies developed to unify the management of
distributed computing environments.
WBEM provides a well integrated set of standard-based management tools,
facilitating the exchange of
data across different
technologies and platforms. The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) has
developed a core set of standards that make up WBEM
.
WBEM has three main components, the Common Information Model (CIM),
which provides a common format, language and methodology for collecting and
decribing management data. The xmlCIM Encoding Specification defines XML
elements, written in Document Type Definition (DTD),
which can be used to represent CIM classes and instances. The CIM Operations
over HTTP specification defines a mapping of CIM
operations onto HTTP that allows implementations of CIM to interoperate in an
open, standardized manner and completes the technologies that support WBEM.
[Sources: Distributed
Management Task Force, Inc.,
WBEM Solutions]
