Artifact Type: Pattern

Technology Architecture

Pattern: 47 related definitions

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Active Directory Pattern:

The NIH Enterprise Active Directory is a shared enterprise directory for NIH within the DHHS Forest. NIH is a multi-faceted enterprise serving a broad...

Application Program Interface (API) Pattern:

An Application Program Interface (API) is a set of calling conventions that defines how a service is invoked through software. An API enables client programs...

Broker / Operational Data Store (ODS) / Warehouse Pattern:

An Operational Data Store (ODS) is an informational database that typically stores detailed data about business events in order to support operational...

Business Partner Boundary Services Pattern:

This boundary is between NIHnet and a business partner. The business partner domain is assumed to be untrusted primarily because it is not under direct...

CAN/MAN/WAN Pattern:

CAN, MAN, and WAN, which represent one pattern are extensions of the networking capabilities performed by the LAN over a wider geographic distance. A CAN...

Complex Resource Scheduling Pattern:

Complex resource scheduling allows users to invoke their email client software to schedule resources for meetings, events (which could include a scientific/research...

Composite Applications Pattern:

A composite application seems to the user like a new application. It has some new functionality itself, plus functionality from multiple existing applications....

Data Consistency Pattern:

Modern enterprises generally have redundant versions of data regarding customers, products, orders, employees, and other entities; NIH is no exception....

Data Reporting Pattern:

This solution presents multiple options for data reporting at NIH. An NIH user can access NIH data repositories including individual databases (Oracle,...

Document Management Service Pattern:

This pattern shows how document management tools can be used to provide computerized production, storage, management and distribution of documents. Generally...

Enterprise Messaging Pattern:

The Enterprise Messaging Pattern is of a future-state of a single consolidated NIH-wide e-mail system, Central e-Mail Services (CES), which combines the...

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Pattern:

An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a streamlined, distributed integration middleware infrastructure that combines Extensible Markup Language (XML) and...

Event Driven Architecture (EDA) Pattern:

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) uses unidirectional messaging to communicate among two or more, largely independent peer procedures. The communication...

Federation Pattern:

The goal of NIH’s Federated Identity service is to give a person the ability to use the same user name, password, or other personal identification to access...

High-Level Enterprise Systems Management (ESM) Pattern:

This High-Level Enterprise Systems Monitoring (ESM) Pattern represents a work in progress and will continue to change as the ESM market matures and its...

High-Level Security Pattern:

The following diagram presents the security architecture patterns in an overall context. Each pattern is a definition of the security services and mechanisms...

Internet Boundary Services Pattern:

This pattern defines the boundary architecture between NIHnet and the public Internet. This boundary is where the majority of external access to internal...

LAN High Availability Configuration Pattern:

LAN High Availability Configuration Solution is for expected uptime of 99.999 percent or higher. At the device level, neighboring user devices are connected...

LAN Minimum Configuration Pattern:

LAN minimum configuration solution is for basic connectivity with expected minimum uptime of 99.5 percent. This configuration should be implemented for...

Large Scale Integration Pattern:

The Large Scale Integration Pattern illustrates the vision for the overall application integration topology at NIH. It could be decomposed into hundreds...

Level 1 System Boundary Services Pattern:

This boundary applies to Level 1 servers. These servers are generally used to provide information to external organizations and to the general public....

Level 2 System Boundary Services Pattern:

This boundary addresses Level 2 systems. These systems are generally available to NIH employees and business partners who are involved in day to day NIH...

Level 3 System Boundary Services Pattern:

This pattern addresses the requirements of the most sensitive systems within NIH. These systems contain information that is subject to HIPAA and privacy...

Network Availability Management Pattern:

Availability Management is an Enterprise Systems Management (ESM) discipline. Network Availability Management includes the administrative services performed...

Network Availablity Management - IC High-Level Logical Design Pattern:

The IC high-level logical design pattern for network availability management illustrates how monitoring systems will monitor clients, servers, printers...

Network Load Balancing End-node Configuration Pattern:

Load balancing technology is used to balance workload across servers to improve availability, performance, and scalability. Network Load Balancers are...

Network Load Balancing In-line Configuration Pattern:

Load balancing technology is used to balance workload across servers to improve availability, performance, and scalability. Network Load Balancers are...

NIH Wireless User with VPN Pattern:

NIH Wireless User with VPN Pattern Printer-Friendly Version Description The Logical Design Pattern for NIH Wireless User with VPN shows the logical view...

NIHnet/ICnet Boundary Services Pattern:

NIHnet/ICnet Boundary Services Pattern Printer-Friendly Version Description This boundary is between the NIHnet backbone and any IC sub network (ICnet)....

Remote Access Pattern:

Remote access provides the ability to securely log on to the network from a distant location through resources that are not managed by NIH. NIH personnel...

Remote Access/Wireless Boundary Services Pattern:

The remote access boundary applies to all forms of remote access including Internet or business partner VPN, dial in remote access, and wireless. By definition,...

Secure Email Middleman Pattern:

This pattern depicts an alternative method for NIH and external users to exchange secure emails that are received and read by external users when PKI-based...

Service Implementation Pattern:

The Service Implementation Pattern illustrates three alternative approaches to implementing services: Development of a completely new service implementation...

Service Orchestration Pattern:

Service Orchestration introduces state and flow control to create dynamic relationships between services that are determined at runtime, rather than the...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Security Pattern:

The SOA Security Pattern addresses security along four dimensions: Authentication – It must be possible for the service provider to ascertain the identity...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Pattern:

A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an application topology in which the business logic of the application is organized in modules (services) with...

Shared Virtual Workspace Pattern:

This pattern shows how shared virtual workspace technologies provide formal, structured synchronous and asynchronous collaboration through, or instead...

Standalone Instant Messaging Pattern:

Instant messaging (IM) can be incorporated into other collaborative products such as portals, shared virtual workspaces and/or desktop web conferencing...

Trusted User Boundary Services Pattern:

This boundary pattern addresses the controls required for a trusted client to locally (that is, physical connection to an NIH managed network within NIH...

Web Collaboration Solution Pattern:

The Web Collaboration Solution pattern shows how Web conferencing and shared virtual workspace technologies provide formal, structured synchronous and...

Web Conferencing Solution Pattern:

The Web Conferencing Solution Pattern shows how web conferencing technologies provide formal, structured synchronous collaboration instead of formal face-to-face...

Web Content Management Service Pattern:

Web Content Management Systems (WCMS) consist of applications used to create, manage, store and deploy content on the Web, including text, graphics, video...

Web Information Access Pattern:

This solution provides access to Web information resources via a desktop Web browser. An NIH user can access NIH intranet, portal, and Internet websites...

Web Services Pattern:

Web services are a software concept and infrastructure for program-to-program communication and application component delivery. The Web services concept...

Wireless Guest User Pattern:

The logical design pattern for wireless guest user shows how a wireless guest user can access the Internet or NIH resources through the wireless gateway....

Wireless LAN Pattern:

Wireless LAN (WLAN) is a LAN communication technology in which radio, microwave or infrared links replace the physical media (i.e., wires and cables)....

Workflow/Business Process Management (BPM) Service Pattern:

This pattern shows how business process management (BPM) tools can be used to implement business processes through the orchestration of activities between...

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