Monitoring

SOA Software’s Service Manager™ offers powerful Web services monitoring capabilities.  It can determine the health and performance of any operation of each service it manages.  It implements the unique concept of identity-based SLA contracts, whereby it monitors managed services from the perspective of different users.  This allows the Service Manager to ensure that messages with different priorities based on sender or content, can be treated differently based on the current performance of the service.

The Service Manager™ also offers powerful integration capabilities allowing it to be managed as part of existing operations management frameworks like Tivoli Enterprise Console and HP Openview, and security solutions like Tivoli Access Manager and Netegrity SiteMinder and TransactionMinder.

As the use of XML and Web services to facilitate business transactions grows, so does the need for effective operational management of these services.  Most enterprises have already built extensive operational management infrastructure and need to leverage this investment for XML and Web services management.

Any Web Services Management solution must be able to integrate seamlessly with existing management infrastructure tools such as IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console , HP OpenView and CA Unicenter.

There are, however, aspects of the management of XML and Web services networks that may be outside the scope of traditional management solutions, such as security policy management and configuration of the management framework itself.  The Web Services Management fabric must provide powerful graphical tools that enable easy configuration and management of the complete XML and Web services network.  Of course, it is also critical that these standalone tools integrate seamlessly with the existing management framework.