Patent ID: 8019791

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of generating management metadata for a resource comprising: receiving at a computer system information indicating a resource to be managed; obtaining information relating to the resource; extracting properties relating to management of the resource from the information relating to the resource; selecting from the extracted properties at least one property that is relevant to management of the resource; converting a format of the at least one selected property; and for each of the at least one selected properties, automatically generating, using the computer system, metadata enabling the resource to be managed based on each of the at least one selected properties, wherein the generated metadata comprises the converted property, a format of the converted property, a frequency of update of a metric, and a threshold for generating an alert; wherein information relating to the resource is obtained by using a Web service and wherein the information indicating a resource to be managed comprises information specifying managed entity information model classes that define the resource to be managed and the Web service obtains the definition of the specified managed entity information model classes.