Components of Management

INF - Infrastructure components starting from various types of communications, wrappers for resources to manage them including OS resources, hardware resources and software (south bound, lower layer abstractions)
OAMP - These are the management components involving fault, configuration, performance, chassis management, high availability, policy management, discovery etc.,
DATA - Data layer, where the actual information for the application is maintained interms of model / tables
M-IF - Management interface components handling the management protocol interface to the higher layers for management (north bound abstractions)

Transaction Processing
- Jim Gray
Distributed Systems
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
- Birman

SAF Suite

Oepn AIS (OSDL)
SAF Test (SourceForge) - saftest.sf.net
OpenHPI - HPI implementation
Open DLM - Distributed Lock Manager (SourceForge)