Re: [Hawkular-dev] Business app/services representation in Inventory

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gary Brown" <gbrown(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: "Discussions around Hawkular development" > <hawkular-dev(a)lists.jboss.org&gt; > Sent: Tuesday, 31 March, 2015 10:37:53 AM > Subject: [Hawkular-dev] Business app/services representation in Inventory > > Hi > > Before going too far down the BTM road, I just wanted to confirm whether or > not we want the business app, their components services, and their > relationships to IT resources they use, stored in Hawkular Inventory? > Inventory definitely is the right place to store such information. > An alternative approach would be to derive the structure and relationships > dynamically from the business transaction instance information. > Deriving the structure and relationships dynamically is basically a "discovery" as called in ye olde RHQ days. That is a capability which we'd very much like to keep.

The new inventory is (so far) unaware of special "discovery" step - everything from resource creation to establishing relationships is done through 1 public API that "anyone" can use. > The benefit of storing in Inventory is it enables end users to navigate > through the inventory to understand the relationships to the business > apps/services, as well as allow other tooling (e.g. impact analysis) to > determine the effect of IT resource downtime on business apps. > +1. I know Brett will object that that's what Artificer is for, too, but I personally see the difference in Inventory's focus on relationships, while Artificer is more geared towards managing content. > Thoughts? > > Regards > Gary > _______________________________________________ > hawkular-dev mailing list > hawkular-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hawkular-dev > _______________________________________________ hawkular-dev mailing list hawkular-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hawkular-dev