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0056 Resource Managers

A resource manager is a software capability that manages one or more resources. The following entity types augment the description of a software capability.

UML

FileSystem

The FileSystem is a collection of stored files organized in a folder hierarchy. They are managed by many resource managers as long as they have access privileges. Each resource manager may access these files through a different mount point. The effect is that the full path name of the file may differ from resource manager to resource manager. Therefore, the attributes captured for a file system are:

  • encryption - type of encryption used on the files.
  • format - format used to store the files.
  • localMountPoint - root of the file path name that is due to the resource manager's view of the file system.
  • canonicalMountPoint - value to replace the actual mount point with when storing/retrieving metadata about a file within the file system.

The use of the localMountPoint and canonicalMountPoint is critical to allow different tools in the open metadata ecosystem to share metadata about the same files.

FileManager

The FileManager entity manages a collection of files - it is typically the single owner of the files, and they are access through its APIs. A photo management application is an example of such a file manager.

UserProfileManager

The UserProfileManagerentity describes a system that manages user profile information - such as a company directory.

UserAccessManager

The UserAccessManager entity describes a user directory such as LDAP.

MasterDataManager

A MasterDataManager entity describes a server that manages the rationalization of master data stored in many systems.

ContentCollectionManager

A ContentCollectionManager entity describes a server that manages a collection of documents or media files.

NotificationManager

A NotificationManager entity describes a server that manages the distribution of events to multiple destinations.

SourceControlLibrary

A SourceControlLibrary entity describes a server that manages version of files related to software source and its related resources.

ChangeManagementLibrary

A ChangeManagementLibrary entity describes a server that manages descriptions and decisions about potential and actual changes to the IT landscape.

SoftwareLibrary

A SoftwareLibrary entity describes a server that manages the distribution of software modules and libraries in the deployment of capability to the IT landscape.

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