INCREMENTALLY MANAGING DISTRIBUTED CONFIGURATION DATA

摘要

A configuration management system provides a partitioned data model for collecting and representing configuration information from a diverse set of sources to allow easier modeling of very large, highly redundant sets of enterprise configuration information. The system partitions large configuration schema into logical subcomponents that can be combined, shared, and reused. The system also partitions instantiated data models into logical sub-models that can be combined, shared, reused, and incrementally updated. Each product team can provide its own configuration schema, which allows the domain experts in a particular field to provide reusable models for their products. These models may include sub-models that allow reuse of selected portions of the configuration schema. When the system stores data related to each portion of the model, it stores the data in a partitioned manner that makes incremental updates of each component of the model more straightforward and less resource intensive.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for collecting configuration data from one or more sources, the method comprising:
beginning a parallel process of collecting configuration data from a configuration model from multiple identified sub-models and identified sources in a target network concurrently; creating a partitioned configuration result store for a selected sub-model and source; invoking the selected sub-model against the selected source to collect configuration data related to the selected sub-model stored at the selected source; receiving at a repository server configuration data from the selected sub-model and source based upon one or more requests defined within the selected sub-model; and storing the received configuration data in the created partitioned configuration result store for the selected sub-model and source, wherein the preceding steps are performed by at least one processor.