Why is policy-based management important?
The number of service relationships in an organization will quickly grow beyond its ability to manage and secure the services individually. To handle this, the practices and standards of the organization should be defined and stored centrally as policies. These policies can then be easily managed and applied to the distributed groups of services. Policy-based management is critical if your enterprise intends to define central policies for security, performance and availability and then implement and enforce these policies at a service and application level. The concept of policy-based management allows central definition of security, availability and performance requirements in a single location (the Policy Definition Point – PDP), with these definition being automatically implemented and enforced at distribute Policy Enforcement Points – PEPs. This dramatically reduces the cost of securing and managing a large scale Web services deployment. The Service Manager is the industry’s first
