Template based management system

One embodiment of the invention uses templates that define certain features of a given service type, wherein the features are common to all services of that service type. The template can be configured by a user to obtain a service definition for the given service. The service definition is passed t...

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Main Authors Sanghvi, Ashvinkumar J, Lakshminarayanan, Anand, Bandari, Chandika, Rizzi, Lorenzo, Wilson, Stephen O, Wright, Travis A, Filimonov, Vitaly V, Voloshin, Vitaly
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.03.2011
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Summary:One embodiment of the invention uses templates that define certain features of a given service type, wherein the features are common to all services of that service type. The template can be configured by a user to obtain a service definition for the given service. The service definition is passed to a programmability layer and provides enough information that the programmability layer can construct the various monitors, rules, classes and tasks required to monitor the given service without further customization by the user. In one embodiment, the user can also customize the service definition, a desired, in order to obtain additional monitoring.