RE: [wsdm] [Uarch] MUWS logical model concepts

["Sedukhin, Igor S" <Igor.Sedukhin@ca.com>]

Title: [Uarch] MUWS logical model concepts



Following my AI from yesterday's call I'm providing clarification of the text to follow the logical diagram. The diagram does not change.

 

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The manageability provider may provide manageability quality for many resources. In other words manageabilty provider may help many resources become manageable resources, instances of which belong to one instance of the provider. To do it, manageability provider maintains manageability endpoints which provide access to the manageable resources. According to the concepts definition, manageable resource is a resource with a number of manageability capabilities composed into it. In order to compose capabilities into the manageable resource, manageability provider supports the manageability capabilities that are are offered by the manageability endpoints. For example, manageability provider could embed a piece of code to support the manageability capabilities into a resource thus making a resource manageable. Provider may also support the capabilities by deploying resources in a container that could add manageability quality to all its resources.

The manageability consumers deal with (act upon) manageable resources. To 'deal with' in this context means to exert control and to obtain and interpret the information. In order to deal with (act upon) the manageable resource, consumers access manageability endpoints and exrecsise offered manageability capabilities. To 'exercise' in this context means to make use of the distinct semantics defined for a given manageability capability on the necessary manageable resource. Essentially, consumers exercise understanding of the sematics defined by a capability, but exercise it on the actual manageable resource. Technically, it translates into being able to use a distinct group of properties, operations, events and metadata by exchanging messages with the manageability endpoint.

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-- Igor Sedukhin .. (igor.sedukhin@ca.com)
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From: Sedukhin, Igor S
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 12:04 PM
To: wsdm@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [wsdm] [Uarch] MUWS logical model concepts

On the last Uarch call I promised to send a logical model formalization in UML. The diagram is attached. The words to PRECEDE the diagram are as follows (assuming the roles of manageability provider and manageability consumer are roughly defined).

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The manageability provider may provide many manageable resources, instances of which belong to one instance of the provider. To do this, manageability provider maintains manageability endpoints which provide access to manageable resources. Manageable resource is a resource with a number of manageability capabilities composed into it. Manageability capabilities are explicitly supported by the manageability provider and are offered via manageability endpoints.

The manageability consumers deal with manageable resources. To 'deal with' in this context means to exert control and to obtain and interpret the information. In order to deal with the manageable resource, consumers access manageability endpoints and exrecsise offered manageability capabilities. To 'exercise' in this context means to make use of the distinct semantics defined for a given manageability capability. Technically, it translates into being able to use a distinct group of properties, operations, events and metadata by exchanging messages with the manageability endpoint.

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<<MUWS Logical Model.png>>
-- Igor Sedukhin .. (igor.sedukhin@ca.com)
-- (631) 342-4325 .. 1 CA Plaza, Islandia, NY 11788