Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Andrew Timothy Hopper

Anders Bertil Vinberg

Ashvinkumar J Sanghvi

Vij Rajarajan

Giedrius Zizys

Benjamin Salim Srour

Dustin Michael Ingalls

Steven Abrahams

Marisol Ontaneda

Nigel Graham Cain

Anthony Baron

Dileep R P Kumar

Travis Dustin Sweat

A configuration management database for storing configuration information about an IT system. The configuration management database may have representations of configuration items that correspond to configuration items in the IT system, indicia of relations between the configuration items, and attributes of the configuration items. The configuration management database may also have configuration state information of the configuration items, where the configuration state information has information indicating whether a configuration item, relation, or attribute is in a state of pending approval or in a state of planned deployment. The configuration management database may also have temporal information indicating a temporal state of a configuration item, relation, or attribute.

Configuration management database state model

Systems management navigation and focus collection is described. In one implementation computing-based managed items which are part of a systems management environment are navigated to locate one or more computing-based managed items. In another implementation, the computing-based managed items are indexed, and then searched to locate one or more of the computing-based managed items from among the computing-based managed items which have been indexed. The searching can be based on one or more search requests. Each of the one or more computing-based managed items located by the navigating and/or the searching is identified by a respective unique identifier, and selected ones of the unique identifiers can be collected in a focus collection where they are at least temporarily maintained for a user.

Systems management navigation and focus collection

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