Creating and handling identification for a resource in a configuration database

A computer program product for creating and handling identification for a resource in a configuration database, comprising:

• a computer readable storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising:
• discovering said resource;
• creating for said resource a resource representation comprising properties of said resource;
• determining and analyzing one or more defined naming rules for said configuration database, wherein a naming rule comprises a naming rule identification, a priority and at least one attribute having an attribute name;
• for the naming rule applicable to said resource, extracting at least one attribute value for the attribute name from said resource representation as at least one of a combination or transformation of properties of said resource;
• for the naming rule applicable to said resource, creating a complex identity object containing the naming rule identification and a list of attribute names and attribute values of said corresponding naming rule;
• for the created complex identity object, setting an authority flag based on a given provider being able to obtain a complete set of values for the attributes;
• processing through one or more complex identity objects according to priority of said corresponding naming rule;
• and
• generating an alias for a result of a Cartesian product of each attribute value of said list of attribute names in a processed complex identity object by concatenating the corresponding naming rule identification and said attribute values.

A computer system for creating and handling identification for a resource in a configuration database, comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processing device in communication with the memory, wherein the computer system is configured to perform a method, said method comprising:
• discovering said resource;
• creating for said resource a resource representation comprising properties of said resource;
• determining and analyzing one or more defined naming rules for said configuration database, wherein a naming rule comprises a naming rule identification, a priority and at least one attribute having an attribute name;
• for the naming rule applicable to said resource, extracting at least one attribute value for the attribute name from said resource representation as at least one of a combination or transformation of properties of said resource;
• for the naming rule applicable to said resource, creating a complex identity object containing the naming rule identification and a list of attribute names and attribute values of said corresponding naming rule;
• for the created complex identity object, setting an authority flag based on a given provider being able to obtain a complete set of values for the attributes;
• processing through one or more complex identity objects according to priority of said corresponding naming rule;
• and
• generating an alias for a result of a Cartesian product of each attribute value of said list of attribute names in a processed complex identity object by concatenating the corresponding naming rule identification and said attribute values.