Specification of a tool for monitoring and managing a web services architecture

Enterprises willing to realize the service-oriented architecture with Web services, to gain advantages of an Internet and standard-based IT infrastructure, need to monitor and manage the deployed Web services architecture for an effective use, namely for flexible composition of business processes. The paper presents architecture and a specification of a tool for Web services monitoring and management. It mainly specifies the components of the architecture that are: (1) an information system that represents the properties of Web services architecture with different perspectives, namely their description, transport protocols, discovery, deployment platform, and the business processes composed out of them, and (2) the required monitoring and management artefacts built on top of the Web services architecture information system.