Abstract: A method, system and article of manufacture are disclosed for creating a graphical user interface (GUI) item, in a computer system having a graphical user interface and a display screen. The method includes the step of enabling a user to create one or more instances of a defined GUI item. This enabling step, in turn, includes the steps of displaying on the display screen a Universal Graphical User Interface (UGUI) item; and identifying on the display screen, in a defined manner associated with the display of the UGUI item, a desired GUI item. In response to said identifying this desired GUI item, the displayed UGUI item is visually transformed on the display screen to said desired GUI item. The UGUI item may be a UGUI element or a UGUI relation for indicating the relation between two GUI elements.

Abstract: A method, system and article of manufacture are disclosed for creating a graphical user interface (GUI) item, in a computer system having a graphical user interface and a display screen. The method includes the step of enabling a user to create one or more instances of a defined GUI item. This enabling step, in turn, includes the steps of displaying on the display screen a Universal Graphical User Interface (UGUI) item; and identifying on the display screen, in a defined manner associated with the display of the UGUI item, a desired GUI item. In response to said identifying this desired GUI item, the displayed UGUI item is visually transformed on the display screen to said desired GUI item. The UGUI item may be a UGUI element or a UGUI relation for indicating the relation between two GUI elements.

Abstract: Within the exemplary embodiments a user is presented with a GUI comprising a main modeling interface window wherein a convention-based model is constructed. The GUI further comprises and an icon repository window wherein the basic modeling tools that are provided within the exemplary embodiments are displayed to the user. Using conventional input devices, a user can drag the representations of the icons that are displayed within the icon repository window into the main modeling interface window in order to construct a desired convention-based model.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatuses for verifying logical bindings between provisionable resources and provisionable storage array volumes. In one embodiment, information that describes logical bindings between one or more provisionable servers and one or more storage array volumes in a system is accessed. A machine-readable network map that describes logical bindings between the one or more provisionable servers and the one or more storage array volumes in a system is accessed. The machine-readable network map is compared with the information. A report of the results from comparing of the machine-readable network map with the information is generated.

Abstract: A method for performing life cycle management of business software applications and their components across a multiple-platform, multiple-language network. The method takes advantage of the inheritance properties of object-oriented programming (OOP) by developing all components of a business application from a set of base classes, thus deploying a common set of methods across all application components. These methods enable monitoring by a Central Administrator element without interdependence between any of the business application components and the Central Administrator. The Central Administrator then determines when a need to reconfigure one or more components of the business application has arisen. The Central Administrator then modifies or replaces existing components of the business application or installs entirely new components over the network without end user interaction.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention pertain to methods and systems for verifying network routing information are described. In one embodiment, a machine-readable map that describes a network route associated with a network router is accessed. The network router is accessed in order to obtain network routing information describing a network route. The machine-readable map is compared with the network routing information. A determination is made as to whether there are any differences between the machine-readable map and the network routing information. If there are any differences, a report that includes messages describing the differences is generated.

Abstract: A method for performing life cycle management of business software applications and their components across a multiple-platform, multiple-language network. The method takes advantage of the inheritance properties of object-oriented programming (OOP) by developing all components of a business application from a set of base classes, thus deploying a common set of methods across all application components. These methods enable monitoring by a Central Administrator element without interdependence between any of the business application components and the Central Administrator. The Central Administrator then determines when a need to reconfigure one or more components of the business application has arisen. The Central Administrator then modifies or replaces existing components of the business application or installs entirely new components over the network without end user interaction.

Abstract: A method for performing life cycle management of business software applications and their components across a multiple-platform, multiple-language network. The method takes advantage of the inheritance properties of object-oriented programming (OOP) by developing all components of a business application from a set of base classes, thus deploying a common set of methods across all application components. The Central Administrator then determines when a need to reconfigure one or more components of the business application has arisen. The Central Administrator then modifies or replaces existing components of the business application or installs entirely new components over the network without end user interaction. In one embodiment of the present invention, the Central Administrator is aided by a set of Distributed Administrators located on each virtual node server/host computer of a business application operating over a network.