Patent ID: 8055773

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for executing system management flows in system management systems for IT Service Environments, wherein said system management system is an Order Processing Environment, wherein said Order Processing Environment includes at least an Order Processing Container, Relationship Registry, and an Order which is being processed by said Order Processing Container, wherein said Order includes a number of resource specific Tasks without arranging those in a sequence, wherein said Tasks provide actions for creating and/or modifying resource topologies, wherein each Task includes Resource Property References specified by Resource Type and Resource Property Name and Resource Property Relationship References specified by Resource Type and at least one Relation name and Resource Property Name, wherein said method is part of the normal Order Processing and is being executed if said Order is returned from a resource (sending resource) to said Container, the method comprising the steps of: a) querying said Order for all Resource Property References which specify properties of said sending resource, b) determining said values of said specified properties of sending resource, c) replacing said references by said values in said Order, d) querying said Relationship Registry for a resource which has a relationship to said sending resource by said Order Processing Container, e) querying said Order for said resource of step d) for resource property relationship references which specify properties of said identified resource as a starting point, f) querying said Relationship Registry for a resource which has a relationship to said resource of step d) and which is named by a relation name specified in the resource property relationship reference, g) determining said values of said specified properties of said resource according to step f), h) replacing said resource property relationship reference by said values in said Order, and j) repeating said steps a)-h) for all sending resources.