WS-RM: Resource Management Using Web Service

We have been participated in the early research work of using Web service for system management and its standardization work. In this paper, we first review the concept of using Web service for management and compare two main industry standardization efforts - WSDM and WS-Management. We present WS-RM, our resource management model, its implementation, the testbed and management scenarios. Then, we present several selected gap items that are identified between realworld management requirements and current standard as well as our proposed solutions. In the end, we discuss some future work into cloud computing management and using Web service for management integration.