An initiative focused on developing a set of enterprise systems management standards based on Internet technology. The web-based approach enables enterprises to manage any component of their infrastructure in a distributed computing environment, as well as value-added applications built by any third party from a central location via internet communications and web browsers.
Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) is a set of systems management technologies developed to unify the management of distributed computing environments. WBEM is based on Internet standards and DMTF open standards: CIM infrastructure and schema, CIM-XML, CIM operations over HTTP, WS-Management. Other systems management approaches are remote shells, proprietary solutions and network management adoptations like SNMP.