The goal of WSDM is to allow a well-defined network protocol for controlling any other service that is WSDM-compliant.
For example, a third-party digital dashboard or network management system could be used to monitor the status or performance of other services, and potentially take corrective actions to restart services if failures occur.
Some aspects of WSDM overlap or displace functionality of SNMP.
WSDM 1.0 was approved as an OASIS standard on March 9, 2005.
[2] WSDM consists of two specifications:[1] This Web-software-related article is a stub.