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Example: Management through Web services
lA Web services exposes the management capabilities of a resource, e.g. a W3C working group such as WS-Desc.
lA requestor (eg a Management Application) might wish to:
*Get working group name
*Get chair name
*Get names of all HP representatives in the group
*Get some or all counters (number of open issues, number of minority opinions filed, number of trouts caught, number of Sanjiva/Tom arguments over last 24 hours…)
*Set one or more counters to zero
*Get all perf metrics (issue resolution rate, average size of trouts caught…)
*Get all attributes of type mgmt:alert and of value “red”
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lEtc. for other services that implement a “workingGroup” interface