CONSTRAINT FREE MODEL

摘要

A method of and system and article of manufacture for creating a network and service inventory data model that does not constrain entities in the inventory or any relationship between entities, the method including modeling the entities, relating a first entity to a second entity via a join table, associating a label for a rule(s) and/or behavior(s) associated with an entity type of any of the modeled entities, decoupling metadata from the rule(s) and/or behavior(s), and implementing the rule(s) and/or behavior(s) associated at the entity type.

主权项

1. A method of creating a network and service inventory data model that does not constrain any entity of a plurality of entities and does not constrain any relationship between any of the plurality of entities, the method comprising:
modeling each of a plurality of entities; relating a first entity to a second entity via a join table; associating a label for at least one of a rule and a behavior associated with an entity type of at least one of the modeled entities; decoupling corresponding metadata from the at least one of a rule and a behavior; and implementing the at least one of a rule and a behavior associated at the entity type.