[Oslc-Automation] strawman + questions for resource definitions

[John Arwe]

I have some ideas floating around in my head that I'm going to take a pass 
at laying out below. 
1: Monitoring SP = collection of monitoring records, one per monitored 
resource (perhaps, ...per agent on the resource), for the "latest 
observation" view
2: Monitoring SP = collection of metric definitions per monitored resource 
(...same perhaps...), for the "metadata/admin view".  If the metric's 
property is updatable, then it's also a control interface.
3: Monitoring SP = ala #1, but with an additional time dimension if it 
offers more than just "latest observation", e.g. repositories that expose 
a time series of historical observations.
4: monitoring record = set of properties with values, may include a link 
to a resource shape, each Property definition in the shape may include a 
link to the metric definition for it.  Perhaps the metric definition *is* 
a/the resource shape, potentially with extensions.
5: metric definition = set of properties whose values are metadata about a 
particular monitoring record or about how data in the monitoring records 
is gathered

Q1: For the "latest observation" case, which seems like it would be the 
most common one, I know from our meetings that implementations may collect 
various properties at different times.  Those times are usually "pretty 
close" together however, so I'm not sure if we need to expose a separate 
timestamp for each monitored value, or if there is consensus that one 
timestamp for the entire record is "close enough" given that we're living 
in a distributed HTTP system anyway.

Q2: [1] shows UI preview content for various situations.  Are these values 
needed in RDF as well as HTML?  I.e. is this content intended to appear in 
response to GET against a performance record resource where the response 
content type != HTML, so we need properties and/or shapes for them?

Q3: Does the WG object to the perf record to as a collection of in-line 
resource instances, like this
<record-instance-URL>
        pm:cpuUtilization       80
        pm:connections          68
        oslc:instanceShape      <shape-URL>
        pm:collectedAt          20120512
.



[1] http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/PmAppMonitoring


Best Regards, John

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