Patent ID: 8819202
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-based method for automating provisioning of services in a target single or multiple computer systems, network systems, or storage systems, comprising: providing a set of provisioning adaptors each defining an interface configured to format communications to a provisioning application; receiving a provisioning request from a user interface, a control device or a network-based policy management system; identifying one of the provisioning applications for completing a provisioning operation based on the received provisioning request; invoking the identified one of the provisioning applications using one of the interfaces defined by one of the provisioning adaptors; determining a set of dependencies defining an order for performing substeps of the provisioning operation, wherein reoccurring instances of the pair of identifying and invoking steps are performed in the order defined by the determined set of dependencies; providing provisioning agents on one or more components on the target single or multiple computer systems, network systems, or storage systems; collecting configuration data from the provisioning agents; and using the collected configuration data during the determining of the set of dependencies.