Run-Time Features and Benefits
CentraSite provides tools that support the management and monitoring of services in the run-time environment. Using CentraSite, administrators can define policies that execute Policy Enforcement Points (PEPs) that reside between the consumer and the service endpoint. These policies typically perform security-related activities such as authentication, message encryption/decryption, auditing/logging tasks, and performance reporting functions.
When webMethods Mediator is used as a PEP, administrators can define and deploy virtual services into the run-time environment. Virtual services operate as consumer-facing proxies for the endpoints where Web services are actually hosted. Besides performing security, logging and monitoring activities, a virtual service can also execute advanced mediation steps such as message routing, load-balancing, failover handling and message transformation.
CentraSite supports the run-time environment that enables you to:
Define and manage standard run-time policies.
Attach run-time policies to Web services and deploy the policies to specified PEPs in the run-time environment.
Define and deploy virtual services to perform mediation steps such as routing, load-balancing, failover, and message transformation.
Monitor the run-time performance of services and identify services that fail to meet specified thresholds.
CentraSite provides support for the following policy-enforcement points and run-time monitoring products:
webMethods Mediator is a PEP that provides policy enforcement, service mediation, and monitoring capabilities.
webMethods Mediator enforces run-time policies that you create in
CentraSite.
webMethods Insight is a monitoring tool that enables you to see what is happening in real-time with service transactions as they flow across any system. It provides visibility and control at the transaction level to heterogeneous SOA environments.
