Patent ID: 9432247
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for instantiating one or more resources of an IT-service, each resource being of one of one or more resource types, each resource being provided by one of one or more resource managers of an IT-service management system, the method comprising: analyzing, by a management engine, a service model of said IT-service, the service model comprising nodes respectively representing one of the resources and respectively being indicative of a resource type of said represented resource, each of the nodes comprising a generic API, the generic API not being specific to any particular one of the resource managers and providing at least one abstract method for instantiating the resource represented by the respective node; and for each of the nodes, executing, by the management engine, at runtime of the IT-service management system: