Asset Management and Governance
Managing the content of the registry is critical to the success of an SOA environment. To support this effort, CentraSite provides governance capabilities and tools that enable administrators and architects to:
Control access to
CentraSite and to the metadata for individual assets listed in the registry.
Model the specific entities that make up an organization's SOA environment as well as the dependencies and interrelationships of those entities.
Enable reuse of computing assets by providing easy access to in-depth information about an artifact's technical properties, semantics and relationships to other artifacts in the SOA.
Define classification systems (taxonomies) that enable Web services and other assets to be easily discovered and managed.
Impose mandatory testing, approval processes and/or quality checks to ensure that assets accepted into the SOA adhere to organizational standards and policies.
Model the lifecycle process associated with each asset type and specify the events that are to be triggered when an asset transitions from one lifecycle state to another.
Administrators and architects use CentraSite Control, the browser-based user interface provided with CentraSite, to perform these types of governance-related tasks. Systems and tools from the CentraSite Community can also provide this kind of functionality. Some basic administrative tasks can also be performed using the CentraSite Eclipse plug-in tool.
