Patent ID: 7676562

Claim:
A computer storage medium having computer executable instructions for performing steps comprising: (a) receiving from a sending device at a receiving device a first Simple Object Accessing Protocol (SOAP) message comprising a first operation identifier for accessing instrumentation information and a first resource identifier associated with a first computer system resource; (b) resolving the first resource identifier into an address for a local handler associated with the first resource; (c) sending a local request to the local handler at the resolved address; (d) determining a timeout period for the first Simple Object Accessing Protocol message, the timeout period being a published default timeout period, the timeout period not being part of the first Simple Object Accessing Protocol message, determining the timeout period including requesting the published timeout period from a publishing device, the publishing device being different from the sending device and the receiving device; and (e) when the receiving device cannot comply with the timeout period, sending an Unsupported Timeout message to the sending device.