Publication number: 20060025985
Abstract: A model of a system is generated and used as a basis for managing the system. As the system is managed, the system model can be updated to reflect changes to the system. Managing of the system can include one or more of provisioning applications in the system, provisioning applications in virtual systems, provisioning test environments, monitoring the configuration of the system, monitoring the system including the health of the system, performing capacity planning for the system, and propagating attributes to different components in the system.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 29, 2005
Publication date:
February 2, 2006
Applicant:
Microsoft Corporation
Inventors:
Anders Vinberg, Bruce Copeland, Robert Fries, Kevin Grealish, Jonathan Hardwick, Michael Healy, Galen Hunt, Aamer Hydrie, David James, Anand Lakshminarayanan, Rob Mensching, Rajagopalan Narayanan, Geoffrey Outhred, Ken Pan, Efstathios Papaefstathion, John Parchem, Vij Rajarajan, Ashvinkumar Sanghvi, Bassam Tabbara, Rene Vega, Vitaly Voloshin, Robert Welland, Eric Winner, Jeffrey Woolsey