Systems Management: Topology Service

One of the fundamental needs of an automated management system is to be able to keep track of where resources are located and how they ae related to other resources in the managed environment. A Topology Service relieves applications of much of the burden that applications would otherwise have in managing associations, by providing storage of topological data, by maintaining semantic integrity of associations, and by providing query support to clients interested in retrieving topological information. An integral part of this service includes determining how managed objects are organized, what their inter-dependencies are, and how underlying aspects of the managed environment combine to form the resources which administrators manage. Classes of applications which benefit from this integration include fault management applications, map generators, correlators, and configuration management tools.

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Catalog number P701
ISBN 1-85912-127-6
Apr 1997

124 pages. height 28 cm. 335 grams.

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