Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kevin D J Grealish

Geoffrey Hugh Outhred

Bassam Tabbara

Rob M Mensching

Reid B Gustin

Galen Clyde Hunt

Robert M Fries

Robert Victor Welland

Ashvinkumar J Sanghvi

Rene Antonio Vega

Aamer Hydrie

Praerit Garg

Raymond W McCollum

Anders Bertil Vinberg

Vij Rajarajan

John M Parchem

Jeffrey Bruce Parham

Efstathios Papaefstathiou

David C James

Vitaly Voloshin

Michael Joseph Healy

Bruce Wayne Copeland

John H Wilson

Mazhar Naveed Mohammed

Jonathan C Hardwick

Eric Joseph Winner

Pratul Dublish

Anand Lakshminarayanan

Rajagopalan Badri Narayanan

Jeffrey A Woolsey

Eric K Han

Mathilde C Brown

Edwin R Lassettre

Zhengkai Kenneth Pan

Steven T Nielsen

Modeling operational policies of operating a business's or institution's actual or planned IT system. The IT system may include components such as applications, application hosts, one or more networks or components thereof, hardware, and interrelationships between the components. The IT system is to be operated in accordance with operational policies that govern existence or numerosity of components, how the components are interrelated, how the components and interrelationships are configured, and/or manual or automated processes for managing and maintaining the IT system. The modeling may involve generating code that conforms to a language by declaring abstractions using types that correspond to the components of the IT system, by declaring types of interrelationships that correspond to the interrelationships of the IT system, and by defining constraints upon and between the abstract types, where the constraints correspond to operational policies of operating the IT system.

Modeling IT operations/policies

In accordance with certain aspects of the model-based policy application, each of a plurality of policies is associated with appropriate parts of a model of a heterogeneous system. A deployment agent is invoked to apply each of the plurality of policies to components associated with the parts of the model. An identification of a change to one of the plurality of policies is received, and the deployment agent is also invoked to apply the changed policy to selected ones of the components associated with the parts of the model.

Model-based policy application

Embodiments of model and system state synchronization are presented herein. An exemplary model of a distributed system includes a plurality of instances where an instance includes an instantiation of a type that includes property values and relationships in the model of the distributed system and includes an associated version history to link each version of an instance to a change request for the distributed system. Other exemplary methods, systems, devices, etc. are also disclosed.

Model and system state synchronization

Embodiments provide for a dynamically generated UI management tool, which is part of a hierarchical, layered system built on top of an object-relational model. It provides both common model types for system modeling, as well as transaction engines. The transaction engines allow for such things as discovery of objects within a live system into an instant space and synchronization of the instant space back to the live system, which may then be used when committing requested changes to objects. Upon gathering of object-relational information within the system, the UI can be dynamically generated showing derived relationships between objects, settings, parts, or attributes for the system, without requiring the general framework to have specific knowledge of the types, relationships, and what should be displayed. As such, a change to the specific types does not require a change to the general framework.

Object-relational model based user interfaces

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