公开(公告)号：US20240036910A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-01

申请号：US18319351

申请日：2023-05-17

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Nicholas Mark Grant Stephen ,  Santoshkumar Kavadimatti ,  Saurabh Kedia

IPC: G06F9/455

CPC classification number: G06F9/45558 ,  G06F2009/4557

Abstract: The current document is directed to a meta-level management system (“MMS”) that aggregates information and functionalities provided by multiple underlying management systems in addition to providing additional information and management functionalities. In one implementation, the MMS creates and maintains a single inventory-and-configuration-management database (“ICMDB”), implemented using a graph database, to store a comprehensive inventory of managed entities known to, and managed by, the multiple underlying management systems. Each managed entity is associated with an entity identifier and is represented in the ICMBD by a node. Managed entities that are managed by two or more of the multiple underlying management systems are represented by nodes that include references to one or more namespaces. Each of the underlying management systems is associated with at least one data collector that collects inventory and configuration information from the underlying management system for storing within ICMDB nodes and ICMDB-node namespaces.