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Web-Based Enterprise Management



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DEFINITION - Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) is a set of industry standards that an enterprise can use to manage its information operations in the distributed computing environment of the Internet. An important part of WBEM is the Common Information Model (CIM), a standard for defining device and application characteristics so that system and network administrators and management programs are able to control devices and applications from different manufacturers or sources in the same way. WBEM standards provide a Web-based approach for exchanging CIM data across different technologies and platforms. CIM data is encoded using Extensible Markup Language (XML) and usually transmitted between WBEM servers and clients using the Internet's Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

WBEM is designed to be extensible, allowing new applications, devices, and operating systems to be specified in the future. Open-source implementations of WBEM are available from several vendors, including OpenPegasus, OpenWBEM, and WBEMsource. WBEM is said to be particularly appropriate for storage networking, grid computing, utility computing, and Web services.

WBEM was developed by the Distributed Management Task Force (DTMF), a collaboration of BMC Software, Cisco, Compaq, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and other companies. A more limited approach to a network management standard, the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)was developed earlier and is still in use.

LAST UPDATED: 02 Mar 2005

Read more about Web-Based Enterprise Management:
- The DMTF defines the WBEM initiative.
- Compaq discusses WBEM in an early white paper (PDF, 374 KB).
- Kristofer Sandlund provides a detailed analysis of network management using WBEM (PDF, 187 KB).


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