Web-Based Enterprise Management
In computing, Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) comprises a set of systems-management technologies developed to unify the management of distributed computing environments. The WBEM initiative, initially sponsored in 1996 by BMC Software, Cisco Systems, Compaq Computer, Intel, and Microsoft, is now widely adopted.[1] WBEM is based on Internet standards and Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) open standards:
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Although the name labels WBEM as "web-based", it is not necessarily dependent on any particular user interface (see below). Other systems-management approaches include remote shells, proprietary solutions and IETF standardized network-management architectures like the SNMP and Netconf.
WBEM allows the management of any element in a standard and inter-operable manner.
WBEM provides the technology underlying different management initiatives in information technology:
The implementation of the management system requires three components: