Method and system for automatically cloning IT resource structures

A method and system for automatically cloning IT resource structure in stateful web services environments by employing a new approach for configuration management. The present new approach models the configurational state of each resource as a stateful web service. Configuration data are provided by...

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Main Authors BREH JOCHEN, SPATZIER THOMAS, BEHRENDT MICHAEL M, BREITER GERD
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 29.06.2010
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:A method and system for automatically cloning IT resource structure in stateful web services environments by employing a new approach for configuration management. The present new approach models the configurational state of each resource as a stateful web service. Configuration data are provided by this service's resource properties. Relationships between configurations of different resources are modeled as "stateful web services relationships" between web service instances. These relationships can be navigated, which allows exploring the configuration of a whole system in a standards-based way. Additionally a new web service interface is provided by the stateful web service encapsulating the resource. This interface provides two new operations: "getConfiguration" allows an exploiter to take a snapshot of a resource's and related resources' configurational state and "setConfiguration" allows for setting the configurational state of a resource to a previously saved state. An invocation of "getConfiguration" results in the creation of a new stateful web service instance that stores the configurational state of each resource. This new web service interface is implemented on a per-resource type basis. Any back-end technology may be used to implement this new web service interface.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20070620206