Understanding Administrator Object States

In the Administrator, all runtime objects and applications have properties that reflect their state.

The objects managed by Administrator fall into two groups, physical and logical.
  • Hosts, nodes, resource instances, components, and bindings, are physical entities in the runtime.
  • Environments, applications, resource templates, features, users, groups, and permissions are logical entities used for management functions.

All runtime objects, except pre-created or bootstrap hosts, are created in Administrator, and then instantiated in the runtime. Hosts exist in the runtime first and are added to the Administrator.

The following object properties provide information on object state:

Although applications do not exist in the runtime, the application's components and bindings have a runtime manifestation. An application's state properties are a roll-up summary of the state of its components and bindings.