Configuring a service based on manipulations of graphical representations of abstractions of resources

• US 9,729,468 B2
• Filed: 11/16/2012
• Issued: 08/08/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Jaisinghani, Devendra Rajkumar
• Primary Examiner(s): Hailu, Tadeese
• Application Number:
  US13/679,632
• Publication Number:
  US 20130080902A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,726 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/203 using migration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4401 Bootstrapping security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/14 Charging , metering or billing arrangements for data wireline or wireless communications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1428 Invoice generation, e.g. customization, lay-out, database processing, algorithms for calculating the bill or formatting invoices as WWW pages invoicing in general G06Q30/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0803 Configuration setting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/145 involving simulating, designing, planning or modelling of a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/344 Out-of-band transfers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/829 Topology based
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/30 Profiles

Abstract

A method to enable defining of a profile of a service through manipulation of graphical representations of abstractions of resources in a data center is disclosed. The profile of the service is accessed. A graphical representation of an abstraction of the first resource type is presented. A graphical representation of an abstraction of a second resource type is presented. A manipulation of the graphical representation of the abstraction of the second resource type is detected with respect to the graphical representation of the abstraction of the first resource type. Based on the manipulation, a correspondence between the abstraction of the second resource type and the profile of the service is identified and a relationship between the abstraction of the second resource type and the abstraction of the first resource type is identified. The profile of the service is updated to include information identifying the correspondence and the relationship.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a profile-editing engine implemented by at least one processor and configured to, at least;

in response to a detecting of a manual drag-and-drop of a graphical icon of an abstraction of a type of a resource from a palette to an infrastructure environment, display graphical icons of concrete types of resources in the infrastructure environment corresponding to the type of the resource;

in response to a detecting of a manual selection of a graphical icon of one of the concrete types of resources, establish a mapping between the abstraction of the type of the resource and the one of the concrete types of resources;

update a profile of a service to include information identifying the mapping between the abstraction of the type of the resource and the one of the concrete types of resources;

communicate the profile of the service to a resource management system for reconfiguring of a deployment of the service in the infrastructure environment;

in response to a detecting of a manual drag-and-drop of a graphical icon of an abstraction of a type of a connection between resources from the palette to the infrastructure environment, display graphical icons of concrete types of connections between resources in the infrastructure environment corresponding to the type of the connection between the resources; and

enforce connectivity constraints to prevent manual adding of invalid connections between the resources in the profile or to prevent exceeding a threshold number of the resources being added to the profile.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the profile-editing engine is further configured to select the concrete types of resources based on a comparison between the abstraction of the type of the resource and types of actual instances of resources in the infrastructure environment.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the profile-editing engine is further configured to select the types of actual instances of resources in the infrastructure environment based on an availability of the actual instances of the resources.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the profile-editing engine is further configured to, in response to the detecting of the manual selection of the graphical icon of the one of the concrete types of resources, display graphical icons of actual instances of resources in the infrastructure environment corresponding to the one of the concrete types of the resources.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the profile-editing engine is further configured to, in response to a detecting of a selection of a graphical icon of one of the actual instances of resources, establish a mapping between the one of the concrete types of the resources and the one of the actual instances of the resources.

6. A method comprising:

in response to a detecting of a manual drag-and-drop of a graphical icon of an abstraction of a type of a resource from a palette to an infrastructure environment, displaying graphical icons of concrete types of resources in the infrastructure environment corresponding to the type of the resource;

in response to a detecting of a manual selection of a graphical icon of one of the concrete types of resources, establishing a mapping between the abstraction of the type of the resource and the one of the concrete types of resources;

updating a profile of a service to include information identifying the mapping between the abstraction of the type of the resource and the one of the concrete types of resources;

communicating the profile of the service to a resource management system for reconfiguring of a deployment of the service in the infrastructure environment;

in response to a detecting of a manual drag-and-drop of a graphical icon of an abstraction of a type of a connection between resources from the palette to the infrastructure environment, displaying graphical icons of concrete types of connections between resources in the infrastructure environment corresponding to the type of the connection between the resources; and

enforcing connectivity constraints to prevent manual adding of invalid connections between the resources in the profile or to prevent exceeding a threshold number of the resources being added to the profile.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising selecting the concrete types of resources based on a comparison between the abstraction of the type of the resource and types of actual instances of resources in the infrastructure environment.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising selecting the types of actual instances of resources in the infrastructure environment based on an availability of the actual instances of the resources.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising, in response to the detecting of the manual selection of the graphical icon of the one of the concrete types of resources, displaying graphical icons of actual instances of resources in the infrastructure environment corresponding to the one of the concrete types of the resources.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising, in response to a detecting of a selection of a graphical icon of one of the actual instances of resources, establishing a mapping between the one of the concrete types of the resources and the one of the actual instances of the resources.

11. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing a set of instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to perform operations including:

in response to a detecting of a manual drag-and-drop of a graphical icon of an abstraction of a type of a resource from a palette to an infrastructure environment, displaying graphical icons of concrete types of resources in the infrastructure environment corresponding to the type of the resource; and

in response to a detecting of a manual selection of a graphical icon of one of the concrete types of resources, establishing a mapping between the abstraction of the type of the resource and the one of the concrete types of resources;

updating a profile of a service to include information identifying the mapping between the abstraction of the type of the resource and the one of the concrete types of resources;

communicating the profile of the service to a resource management system for reconfiguring of a deployment of the service in the infrastructure environment;

in response to a detecting of a manual drag-and-drop of a graphical icon of an abstraction of a type of a connection between resources from the palette to the infrastructure environment, displaying graphical icons of concrete types of connections between resources in the infrastructure environment corresponding to the type of the connection between the resources; and

enforcing connectivity constraints to prevent manual adding of invalid connections between the resources in the profile or to prevent exceeding a threshold number of the resources being added to the profile.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the operations further include selecting the concrete types of resources based on a comparison between the abstraction of the type of the resource and types of actual instances of resources in the infrastructure environment.

13. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the operations further include selecting the types of actual instances of resources in the infrastructure environment based on an availability of the actual instances of the resources.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the operations further include, in response to the detecting of the manual selection of the graphical icon of the one of the concrete types of resources, displaying graphical icons of actual instances of resources in the infrastructure environment corresponding to the one of the concrete types of the resources.