| Preliminary Specification |
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| Systems Management: Topology Service |
| X/Open Document Number: P701 |
| ISBN: 1-85912-127-6 |
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A Topology Service relieves most of the burden that applications have in managing associations, by providing storage of topological data, by maintaining semantic integrity of associations, and by providing query support to clients interested in retrieving topological information. As such, Topology serves as a fundamental integration point for management applications in determining how managed objects are organized, what their inter-dependencies are, and how underlying aspects of the managed environment blend together to form the resources which administrators manage. Classes of applications which benefit from this integration include fault management applications, map generators, correlators, and configuration management tools.
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