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Status-message mapping

  • US 20050216573A1
  • Filed: 03/23/2004
  • Published: 09/29/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of mapping status messages of monitored objects to service elements in an IT-infrastructure-management system, the service elements and their dependencies being represented by an element graph having directed links between service elements, thereby defining higher-level and lower-level service elements, the method comprising:

  • directing a status message to at least one higher-level service element;

    ascertaining, at the higher-level service element, whether the status message pertains to a lower-level service element connected with the higher-level service element;

    downwardly propagating of the status message to said lower-level service element in response to a positive outcome in said ascertaining.

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