Device identification

Organizing points into different device buckets is done in a couple of steps. Device buckets are collections of points which are all monitoring the same device, regardless of interface type. For example, a Dell Server may have PerfMon, SNMP, and Ping points. Organizing the points based on device rather than interface type allows the user to see all the points monitoring a particular device. This device-centric view is the standard method for representing the IT assets rather than the point-centric view.

The IT Organizer accomplishes this task in a number of steps. The IT Organizer is a plug-in which may run on a number of client machines. Because of this distributed architecture, we require a centralized data store to keep track of our configuration files. The sections that follow describe some of these configuration files, along with partial schemas.