System and method for developing topography based management systems

An information handling system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• a memory accessible by the processors;
• one or more nonvolatile storage devices accessible by the processors;
• a topography development tool to develop a topography on one or more client computer systems, the topography development tool including:
• means for analyzing a topography design corresponding to a topography;
• means for identifying one or more topography requirements based on the analysis;
• means for creating topography components corresponding to the identified topography requirements, wherein each of the components is adapted to interoperate with one or more operating environments, and wherein at least one of the components is a topography neutral application component that is adapted to interoperate with more than one topography;
• and
• means for storing component data in a topography data store, the component data describing one or more of the components, wherein the component data includes one or more fields selected from the group consisting of a component identifier, a target platform, a development environment, a control model, a topography scale, a management style, a component dependency, a component placement, a component packaging data, a component bundling data, a component build option, and a component runtime option.

A computer program product stored in a computer storage media for analyzing a topography design, said computer program product comprising:

• means for analyzing a topography design corresponding to a topography;
• means for identifying one or more topography requirements based on the analysis;
• means for creating topography components corresponding to the identified topography requirements, wherein each of the components is adapted to interoperate with one or more operating environments, and wherein at least one of the components is a topography neutral application component that is adapted to interoperate with more than one topography;
• and
• means for storing component data in a topography data store, the component data describing one or more of the components, wherein the component data includes one or more fields selected from the group consisting of a component identifier, a target platform, a development environment, a control model, a topography scale, a management style, a component dependency, a component placement, a component packaging data, a component bundling data, a component build option, and a component runtime option.