HP Operations Manager for Windows

Service hierarchy overview


A service hierarchy is a logical organization of the services you provide, each higher level covering a wider or more general service area than the next lower level. The picture below shows a simple service hierarchy. The top level service is E-mail. This service is dependent on two lower level services, America and Europe, which in this case represent e-mail services on two continents. These services depend on other services, down to the lowest level services, in this case, the hard disks and CPUs of specific computers. This sample is small but a service hierarchy can include many more services and relationships. (Click the boxes and arrows below for more information about this service hierarchy example.)

Service Hierarchy Terms

The terms below are used in the help to describe the relationships between the various services in a service hierarchy.

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Planning your service hierarchy