Infrastructure Management System

Infrastructure systems are tangible and supported by physical hardware. For example, an instrument control computer and a virtual machine running on a physical computer are individual infrastructure systems. The Infrastructure Management System (IMS) is responsible for managing infrastructure systems. Its services provide the core capabilities needed to permit infrastructure systems to participate in the INTERSECT federated ecosystem and to provide services that are part of the other logical systems: User Management System, Orchestration System, Data Management System, Campaign Management System, and Communication System. The IMS has the following services and microservice capabilities (mapping the System-of-Systems Architecture to the Microservices Architecture):

Minimum requrement

At minimum, there must be one and only one IMS in an INTERSECT federated ecosystem, as the IMS spans over all infrastructure systems within the same INTERSECT federated ecosystem. Individual services of the IMS may be distributed across infrastructure systems as needed, where some services may only exist once.

Optional requrement

Optionally, multiple INTERSECT federated ecosystems may exist that operate either completely indepenently from each other or collaborate with each other, but each INTERSECT federated ecosystem has only one (its own) IMS.

Components of the Infrastructure Management System