Editing Web-Based Enterprise Management (section)

{{Short description|Systems management standards}}
{{Infobox technology standard
| title             = Web-Based Enterprise Management
| status            = Published
| year_started      = {{Start date and age|1996}}
| organization      = [[Distributed Management Task Force]]
| base_standards    = [[Common Information Model (computing)|CIM]] and [[WS-Management]]
| abbreviation      = WBEM
| domain            = [[Systems management]]
| website           = {{URL|http://www.dmtf.org/standards/wbem}}
}}
In [[computing]], '''Web-Based Enterprise Management''' ('''WBEM''') comprises a set of [[systems management |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.<ref name=Todd>{{cite web|last1=Todd|first1=Greg|title=What is WBEM?|url=http://windowsitpro.com/systems-management/what-wbem|website=Windows IT Pro|accessdate=13 November 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151113060813/http://windowsitpro.com/systems-management/what-wbem|archivedate=13 November 2015|date=June 30, 1998|url-status=live|quote=In 1996, BMC Software, Cisco Systems, Compaq Computer, Intel, and Microsoft sponsored the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) initiative, an effort to provide a unifying mechanism for describing and sharing management information.}}</ref> WBEM is based on [[Internet standard]]s and [[Distributed Management Task Force]] (DMTF) [[open standard]]s: 

* [[Common Information Model (computing)|Common Information Model]] (CIM) infrastructure and [[CIM Schema|schema]]
** CIM-[[XML]]
** CIM operations over [[HTTP]]
* [[WS-Management]] for [[web services]]
*CIM Operations over RESTful Services<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dmtf.org/sites/default/files/standards/documents/DSP-IS0201_1.0.0.pdf|title="CIM Operations over RESTful Services" (PDF).}}</ref>

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 shell]]s, proprietary solutions and [[IETF]] standardized [[network management | network-management]] architectures like the [[Simple Network Management Protocol|SNMP]] and [[Netconf]].