OpenWSMAN - WS-Management for all

About OpenWSMAN

Web Services for Management (WS-Management, WS-MAN) is a specification for managing computer systems using Web services standards.

WS-Management is a SOAP based transport protocol for managing (create, enumerate, access, change, destroy) resources.
Openwsman is an open source implementation of WS-MAN; enabling the in-band management of Linux/uni* platforms.
Openwsman supports the generic WS-Management protocol as well as specific protocol extensions for the Common Information Model (CIM)

Features

Full server and client implementation
Perl, Python, Java and Ruby bindings
Fast and small (~10 MB runtime)
DMTF standards-compliant (WS-Management 1.1.0 + WS-CIM 1.1.0)
Interoperable with Windows WMI and Intel AMT
Scriptable plugins

Supported platforms

Openwsman is primarily developed on Linux but is known to run on Windows and MacOS as well.

Supported Standards

DSP0226 1.1.0 - Web Services for Management (WS Management)
DSP0227 1.2.0 - WS-Management CIM Binding Specification
DSP0230 1.1.0 - WS-CIM Mapping Specification

Documentation

The OpenWSMAN wiki is the primary documentation site. There is also online documentation for the Ruby client bindings

Contact

Any questions about OpenWSMAN should be directed to the openwsman-devel mailing list.

Downloading OpenWSMAN

RPM packages

RPM binaries for Linux are available via the openSUSE Build Service

Source code

Tarballs of releases are distributed via sourceforge.
The latest release is 2.3.0 (Changelog)

Other formats

Other formats (i.e. Debian .deb files) would need a maintainer. Please contact me if you're interested in maintaining other formats.

Git

The git repo for Openwsman is hosted on github.