We know already what SOA is about; hopefully you should if you have been avidly reading each of my blogs on ESB and thousands of blogs on the subject of SOA on dev2dev. For instance, we know that SOA gives you a more agile IT but at the cost of increase in system complexity of services. How do we even begin to try to manage this complexity to gain better visibility and control on what’s happening? Ask yourself this question: do you know what is happening with your SOA?
Well first off - to manage these live dynamic networks of services we need some additional capabilities which leverage fundamental principles around SOA. At the same time, these services can be disparate services built on.NET, Java or even legacy assets. They can also include components that have no ownership or control at all. There can also be services built by other departments, ones available via packaged applications and others published by partners or external service providers. That means they can change or fail independently and without the ability to customize, alter or repair them.
Sound hard enough to tackle? Well managing these SOA networks may seem an immense insurmountable obstacle; this is why BEA has unveiled a new capability in BEA SOA 360 for better managing your heterogeneous and distributed SOA: enter AquaLogic SOA Management.
AquaLogic SOA Management enables a managed SOA by simplifying visibility and control at each stage of the SOA life-cycle. Using AquaLogic SOA Management, enterprises implementing services-based applications can realize the full potential of their flexible, standards-based systems. They can better understand system behavior and implement policies that automate performance management, remedy exceptional conditions and uphold security at the end-points where existing enforcement mechanisms may not already exist.
Key capabilities of AquaLogic SOA Management version 2.6:
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Service Network Monitoring - provides a bird’s eye view into your entire SOA network with critical operational information available at a glance.
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SLA Management - Protects assurances of services across heterogeneous environments for ensuring success with your SOA.
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Service & Infrastructure Discovery - Eases life-cycle and configuration management by auto-discovering the actual services or find new ones deployed in your heterogeneous SOA.
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Exception Management - Easily tracks and detects and correlates exception conditions for message flows across distributed and heterogeneous systems.
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Policy Enforcement & End-point Security – Manages endpoint policies to effectively secure distributed service-oriented architectures.
Now you not only know what is happening, but you have a mechanism to control and optimize what should happen.
For more information on AquaLogic SOA Management 2.6: http://edocs.bea.com/alsm/docs26/index.html
