Bruce G. Payette

TL;DR: In an administrative tool environment, user input is supplied to an administrative tools framework for processing as mentioned in this paper, which maps user input to cmdlet objects, which describe a grammar for parsing the user input and input objects to obtain expected input parameters.

TL;DR: In this paper, a workflow scripting system is described that combines the features of workflows and scripts by automatically translating between the two models, and a script author can create workflows on the fly using familiar scripting language and a workflow author can use scripting steps to perform actions.

TL;DR: In this article, the techniques and mechanisms described in this paper are directed to a taint mechanism, where an object-based command declares a Taint directive for a parameter within a command declaration, and the taint directive is associated with that parameter in a manner such that when an engine processes the command, the engine determines whether to process the command based on the tainting directive and input for the parameter.

TL;DR: In this article, a computer monitoring system uses a set of parameterized models to gather information about monitored devices, including scripts for gathering information, as well as type validation and data validation functions.

TL;DR: A configuration management system provides a partitioned data model for collecting and representing configuration information from a diverse set of sources to allow easier modeling of very large, highly redundant sets of enterprise configuration information as discussed by the authors.