Patent ID: 9692717
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A system for supporting the use of detachable administration commands for use with a cloud computing environment, comprising: a computer, including one or more processors and memory, and a cloud environment executing thereon that supports provisioning of enterprise applications, including providing, for each service type of a plurality of service types, a service definition package that includes information that enables the cloud environment to provide the service type, providing, for each service type of the plurality of service types, a service management engine associated with the service type that enables provisioning of a service instance of the service type; a job manager service that provides an application program interface which receives administrative commands to be processed within the cloud environment, to perform operations including provisioning of the service instance, wherein the administrative commands are processed as jobs, and wherein each instance of the administrative commands is associated with a unique job identifier; a command line interface that enables a user to issue an administrative command instance that is associated with the service instance, to be processed within the cloud environment as a job, and provide an input that causes the system to detach the command line interface from the job being processed; and wherein, in response to receiving a subsequent input to attach the command line interface to the job being processed, including an indication of the unique job identifier associated with the job, the command line interface displays a status information for the administrative command instance that is associated with the service instance and the job being processed within the cloud environment.