What is the difference between monitoring and management?
Monitoring is the process of collecting and reporting on data. In the case of Web Services Management, monitoring typically refers to the collection and charting of performance and availability data, and in some cases security (access) data. Management adds enforcement to monitoring. In Web Services Management, enforcement normally refers to security or network enforcement. Security enforcement is the process of authenticating users and making authorization decisions about the users’ right to access a resource. Network enforcement is less common and should involve combining content-based routing and message throughput throttling with SLA monitoring. The Service Manager is the only Web Services Management and SOA enablement solution that implements an adaptive infrastructure leveraging this concept of network enforcement.
