Management Specification Lacks Event Support

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    • Type: New Feature
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Priority: Major
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    • Affects Version/s: WD02
    • Component/s: Management
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      An event is very similar to a manageable entity. It has a type and arbitrary attributes. Rather than an "ID", the event has a timestamp.

      A managed container could be configured to send event notifications to an address. The address for events could even be specific to the event type.

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      An event is very similar to a manageable entity. It has a type and arbitrary attributes. Rather than an "ID", the event has a timestamp. A managed container could be configured to send event notifications to an address. The address for events could even be specific to the event type.

      This specification is strictly request-response oriented. There is no provision for a managed container to raise unsolicited events. This limitation forces developers of management applications to trade-off network bandwidth for responsiveness. If it is required to respond to a change in state (i.e. a link-loss) in a short time, the state of the agent must be polled rapidly.

      AMQP provides the fundamentals for publish/subscribe which is very appropriate for event distribution. This specification should include this capability.

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            Ted Ross (Inactive)
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