COSMOS Design 200222

Adding support for the CMDBf query service on top of the SML repository

Change History:

Name:	Date:	Revised Sections:
David Whiteman	8/21/2007	Initial version

Overview

In order to act as an MDR per the CMDBf spec, the SML repository needs to support the CMDBf query service. This enhancement is tracked as bugzilla 200222.

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Process	Sizing	Names of people doing the work
Design	1	David/Ali
Code	2
Test	1
Documentation	0.4
Build and infrastructure	0.2
Code review, etc.*	0.2
TOTAL	4.8

• - includes other committer work (e.g. check-in, contribution tracking)

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Term	Definition
MDR	management data repository
CMDBf	federating CMDB
CMDB	configuration management database
SML Repository	repository of SML documents hosted in COSMOS with an established API (see bugzilla 179828)
Query service	MDRs make data available to Clients via a Query service. Queries may select and return items, relationships, and/or graphs containing items and relationships.[1]

Purpose (required)

This design document addresses COSMOS Bugzilla enhancement request 200222.

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