[ogsa-bes-wg] Management Functions in BES

[Karl Czajkowski]

On Jul 23, Steven Newhouse modulated:
> >Discussion: Sections 3.4, 3.5 & 3.6. Having 3 management operations in 
> >the BES specification until generic OGSA management structure defined?
> 
> The operations in 3.4 & 3.5 (Start & Stop AcceptingNewActivities) I see 
> as being a service specific management function (i.e. they effectively 
> alter the behavior of one specific operation within the service).
> 

While its semantics references a BES operation, it seems to me that it
is a more general management pattern for any service that has a
stateful, factory-like interface: stop accepting/creating new work
items but continue processing the existing ones (whatever they are).
The BES-specific meaning could just as easily be specified by calling
out this work acceptance model so that it can be related to an
external management mechanism.

I think it is wrong to burden BES implementations with these kinds of
management functions that are specific to a hosting environment.  I
think the right path here is to engage in management standards for web
services and create profiles to compose these with a basic execution
service if you require both.

I cannot see these functions as being more important interop points
than any of the other security and policy management functions which
everyone seems to agree are out of scope.  If you must use localized
mechanisms to do practical management of a BES installation, I am not
sure what these functions buy you.


karl

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Karl Czajkowski
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