US 2004/0019663 A1 · Generation of administration framework for server systems

Abstract

A generator mechanism for generating an administration framework for server systems. In one embodiment, the administration framework may be generated from meta-information that describes elements of configuration data and relationships among the elements. The mechanism may provide automatic generation of the administration framework. In one embodiment, the administration framework may be a stack on an administration server that includes several layers each including one or more generated components. In one embodiment, the generation mechanism may generate management beans of a management layer, representing business logic of the server; configuration beans of a data representation layer; and a presentation layer for accessing and administering generated components. The data representation layer may provide transparency to the persistent store for the other layers. A production generation of the administration framework may be performed and instances of generated components may be deployed on other servers.

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Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

a plurality of servers;
a data store comprising a persistent store of configuration information for the plurality of servers, wherein the persistent store is formatted in accordance with a data storage format;
wherein one of the plurality of servers comprises a generation mechanism configured to:
generate on the server an in-memory representation of the configuration information from meta-information describing the configuration information, wherein the in-memory representation of the configuration information is formatted in accordance with an in-memory data format;
and
generate on the server a plurality of components from the meta-information describing the configuration information, wherein the plurality of components are configured to access the in-memory representation of the configuration information to perform server configuration tasks.

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A computer accessible medium comprising program instructions configured to implement:

generating on a server an in-memory representation of configuration information from meta-information describing a persistent store of the configuration information, wherein the in-memory representation of the configuration information is formatted in accordance with an in-memory data format, and wherein the persistent store of the configuration information is formatted in accordance with a data storage format;
and
generating on the server a plurality of components from the meta-information describing the configuration information, wherein the plurality of components are configured to access the in-memory representation of the configuration information to perform server configuration tasks.

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Generation of administration framework for server systems

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