WSRR support for the manage phase

Operational management and resilience in the SOA is enhanced by sharing the service metadata that exists in WSRR with operational data stores.

This sharing of service metadata allows management and monitoring dashboards to present a more comprehensive view of the managed service environment. Summary information about service performance can be fed back into WSRR and used by the execution environment to affect the selection of the best-fit provider.

As in the other lifecycle phases, WSRR only manages a minimalist set of service metadata and federates with repositories specializing in managing information about services in manage phase. For example, a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) such as IBM® Tivoli® Change and Configuration Management Database will acquire and manage detailed information about the environment and topology in which service endpoints run. Service management products such as IBM IT Service Management suite will use and update that information and drive governance of processes that provision and configure the underlying infrastructure.