Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Stephen O Wilson

Ashvinkumar J Sanghvi

Vitaly Voloshin

Travis Austin Wright

Lorenzo Rizzi

Anand Lakshminarayanan

Vitaly V Filimonov

Chandika Bhandari

Chandika Bandari

Travis A Wright

One embodiment of the invention uses templates that define certain features of a given service type, wherein the features are common to all services of that service type. The template can be configured by a user to obtain a service definition for the given service. The service definition is passed to a programmability layer and provides enough information that the programmability layer can construct the various monitors, rules, classes and tasks required to monitor the given service without further customization by the user. In one embodiment, the user can also customize the service definition, a desired, in order to obtain additional monitoring.

Template based management system

Various embodiments provide a causality model is used to express causality of system entities in terms that do not necessarily require knowledge of the overall composition of the specific system of which it comprises a part. The causality model, used in connection with model-based management techniques, can allow for the expression of causality in terms of relationships that particular system entities have with other system entities. These other system entities can be entities that share a direct relation or, more generally, an indirect relation with the entity for which the causality is expressed.

Declaration and consumption of a causality model for probable cause analysis

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