Generic Function List

Generic Function

This page contains the list of all 55 Generic Functions that this OIAm repository positions in the infrastructure landscape. They are ordered alphabetically.

Every Generic Function can also have a dedicated icon; a handy overview of the icons present can be found here. Generic Functions can also be grouped by Working Area; the comprehensive set of GFs (and a separate overview of proposals and deprecated functions) can be found in this overview.

Page	Brief description	Maturity
Access Aggregation	Access Aggregation is a logical infrastructure function that performs the tasks required to group multiple Access Conditioning instances.	2
Access Conditioning	Access Conditioning handles tasks that the infrastructure architect associates with obtaining access to an infrastructure facility.	2
Alerting	Alerting serves to notify clients of, and/or trigger other services/functions on, certain predefined conditions or events.	2
Application Engine	This function offers a run-time environment for applications.	2
Archiving	This function provides preservation with retention policies as add-on to another storage function.	2
Caching	This function offers to hold collections of data that are duplicated from elsewhere, or buffer data in transit.	4
Configuration Register	The Configuration Register function retains sets of configuration parameters for one or more IT facilities.	2
Configuration Retrieval	This function collects a service or (sub)system's configuration, and sends it to a consumer.	2
Connection Handling	This function covers all behaviour associated with the management of one end of a communication session.	3
Content Handling	The Content Handling function provides intelligence to manage and manipulate digital content in an automated fashion.	3
Controlling	Function that can change a facility's actual behaviour, the way it is configured.	4
Data Engine	This function offers the ability to process strictly structured data.	4
Data Replication	This function aims to replicate stored data that resides in one (logical or physical) storage location to another one.	2
Data Scanning	The Data Scanning function scans through data searching for certain characteristics, and taking actions upon finding them.	3
Data State Preservation	This function aims to preserve data that resides in a particular (logical or physical) location in the state that it is at a specific point in time.	2
Deploying	The Deploying function can automatically install and configure (software) objects on a specified (remote) location.	3
Distribution	Distribution routes incoming data to one or more destinations.	3
Encryption	This function takes care of the encryption and/or decryption of data.	4
File Engine	This function handles storage, retrieval and manipulation of loosely structured data.	4
Filtering	The Filtering function scans through data, matching it against patterns or rules, and either passing it on or not.	3
Header Modification	This Generic Function enables message exchange between senders and receivers that use different messaging protocols/encapsulations.	2
Identity Store	This function offers to store digital identities together with information that can serve as credentials.	2
Identity Validation	The Identity Validation function offers the ability to validate a digital identity.	3
Input	This function provides the possibility to translate physical information into digital information for use in IT facilities	4
Interconnection	An Interconnection function offers to transport data over relatively long distances	3
Load Balancing	The Load Balancing functionality accepts data en route, and intelligently directs it to travel to one of several destinations.	3
Logging	This function provides a (logical) location where logs can be written and consulted, and the ability to do so.	3
Message Distribution	This function offers to direct messages between and/or within instances of the Message Handling facility.	4
Message Engine	This function can receive, process and/or send messages.	3
Message Filtering	The Message Filtering function checks message handling transactions, matching it against patterns or rules, and either passing messages on or not.	3
Message Formatting	This function is used to format messages for exchange between a facility and a message handling service.	2
Message Responding	The Message Responding function provides feedback to senders regarding message delivery failures and/or recipient status.	2
Message Store	This function preserves and organizes digital messages.	4
Message Transformation	Converts/changes content of a message based on predefined rules during exchange.	2
Name Resolution	The Name Resolution serves lookups from a store of connected names and addresses.	3
Name Resolution	The Name Resolution serves lookups from a store of connected names and addresses.	3
Output	This function conveys digital information for use in the physical world, by converting digital information into events and/or physical information.	4
Permission Register	This function offers a means to store and publish permissions (technical representations of business rules about infrastructural actions like reading or writing information).	2
Permission Validation	This function offers the ability to decide on allowing or disallowing a proposed action by a digital identity on a specified resource.	3
Presentation Aggregation	This function provides a single point of access to a variety of information and/or applications.	3
Presentation Engine	This function processes input to and output from an infrastructure facility.	4
Queuing	Provides the ability to process traffic based various queuing policies.	2
Raw Retention	Function that handles storing/retrieving/updating/deleting unstructured data such as bits and bytes.	4
Reduction	This function encodes data using fewer bits than the original representation, and/or restores it to its original form if so requested.	4
Reporting	A Reporting function can take data from a connected source, process it, and then deliver focused, salient content to its clients.	2
Restore	Function that restores a secondary copy of data to the original, or to an alternative, location.	4
Retention Engine	This function offers intelligent handling of data at the "unstructured data" abstraction level.	4
Rules Engine	This function can have the infrastructure perform actions based on rules.	2
Scheduling	This Function provides control over tasks, based on schedules, events, triggers, and other control information.	2
State Lookup	Informing its user of the state of some object, system, or (infrastructure) facility.	2

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