Chapter 5 About Moab Web Services Plugins

This chapter describes MWS plugins, their use, and their creation in Moab Workload Manager. The sections in this chapter provide you with the following information:

An introduction to the concept of MWS plugins (see Plugin Introduction).
A description of the plugin lifecycle (see Lifecycle States).
How plugins are driven by events (Handling Events).
How to expose web services from a plugin (Exposing Web Services).
How plugin utility services may be used (Utility Services).
How data report collisions between plugins are consolidated (Data Consolidation).
How calls from Moab are routed to MWS plugins (Routing).

It contains the following sections:

Plugin Overview
Plugin Developer's Guide
Plugin Type Management
Plugin Management
Plugin Services