Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090007157 | Mapping Data Sources to a Procedural API - Described are embodiments directed to use of workflows for developing management agents that connect operations of a data source to a procedural API of an application. The management agents include a workflow that corresponds to an operation of a data source. The workflow includes a number of activities that make calls to the procedural API in order to perform the operation of the data source with respect to an object of the application. The use of workflows makes the development of management agents easier and more efficient. | 01-01-2009 |
20090119500 | Managing software configuration using mapping and repeatable processes - The embodiments described herein generally relate to a method and system of injecting automated repeatable processes, or workflows, into software configuration management sequences. The benefits of such a system include the ability to delegate configurability change abilities to an IT administrator while still maintaining efficiency and management control over such changes. A request made by a system administrator to process configuration data may be subject to multiple phases of processing, such as, authentication, authorization, and action. A declarative mapping associates workflows, or meaningful repeatable processes, with the configuration process request criteria and processing phase. The mapping may be created by, or at the direction of, management through the application of the processing concept in API or UI. Upon a triggering event, e.g., receiving a configuration processing request, a stored mapping based on the attributes of the principal and request type may be consulted to determine the workflows which may then execute. | 05-07-2009 |
20090307172 | RETROACTIVE POLICY ENFORCEMENT - Disclosed herein is a system and method for enforcement of management policies by automatically trigging action-based processes that are mapped to the management policies. This may occur when: a new management policy is created; a final set of a management policy is modified; a new workflow is added to the management policy; and the membership filter or explicit membership of a set referenced by the management policy's final set is modified. | 12-10-2009 |
20100153932 | MANAGING SET MEMBERSHIP - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for managing set membership. A set definition is translated into one or more membership conditions. Each membership condition includes statements about the attributes of a resource that are to be true if the resource is to be included in the set. For any given resource request, resources touched by the request are compared to membership conditions applicable to the touched resources. Thus, embodiments of the invention minimize the work that is done to determine which sets a resource may or may not belong to whenever a resource is modified. Accordingly, based on available resources, embodiments of the invention can scale to accommodate larger numbers of sets and larger numbers of potential members of sets. | 06-17-2010 |
20110107351 | CAUSE-CHAIN ANALYSIS USING OBJECTS - Identification of the root cause of a change in the system, as well as any side-effects (“ancillary changes”) caused by the change via an object attribute. A change resulting from a request in a system, whether originating from a user, service, or workflow, has an associated request object that captures the details of the change. An ancillary change resulting from the prior change is correlated to the prior change through a parent attribute on the request object that identifies the prior change as the immediate parent. Thus, all downstream ancillary changes resulting from a request can be correlated back to the root request (change) via the parent attributes of the ancillary changes. | 05-05-2011 |