Axibase Fabrica is a web-based application which consists of three key components: an integration interface, an in-memory model-based status engine, and a visualization engine.

Axibase Fabrica provides a set of pre-configured adapters which can be used to transparently import resource models from a variety of system and network management tools such as HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Microsoft Operations Manager. Once the referenced resources are assembled into a service model, Fabrica continuously monitors these resources in order to evaluate the overall status of an application or service and its individual components.

Once the Fabrica server detects a change in component severity, the visualization engine is invoked to dynamically manipulate shape properties such as border, color, shadow and native overlay icons. Fabrica web-based views can be accessed anywhere, anytime using a standard browser.

One of the key differentiating factors of this architectural design, as compared to event-based aggregation products, is that it provides integrated diagnostics and drill-down tools while ensuring referential integrity of severity status representation.

Fabrica does not require users to invest substantial resources in the development and maintenance of sophisticated event processing rules. Moreover, it enables customers to easily migrate and redeploy service models among disparate management frameworks.