Unified project description across all documentation.

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        ===============================================================
 
   “System DataBase” (SysDB) is a multi-backend system management and inventory
-  collection service. It may be used to (continuously) collect information
-  about your systems from various backends (inventory services, monitoring
-  services, etc.) and provides a unique interface to access the information
-  independent of the active backends. This is done by storing and mapping the
-  backend objects to generic objects and correlating the attributes to create
-  a single hierarchical view of your infrastructure.
+  collection service. It stores system and inventory information about
+  hardware and software systems. This information is (continuously) collected
+  from various configurable backends (inventory services, monitoring services,
+  etc.) and stored in a graph-like hierarchy of generic objects. The store may
+  be queried through a generic interface independent of the active backends.
+  Object names are canonicalized before they are added to the store to ensure
+  a consistent view of your infrastructure.
+
+  The central object type is a host, which generally represents a physical or
+  virtual machine or any other type of physical resource. Hosts, in turn, may
+  reference a list of services which represent any kind of logical resource
+  like a software system. Both, hosts and services, may reference a list of
+  attributes which represent further information about the respective host or
+  service object. For example, attributes may specify static information like
+  a host's architecture or the software version or reference performance data
+  like the current memory utilization or much more.
 
   SysDB is free and open source software, licensed under the 2-clause BSD
   license. See COPYING for details.

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  About SysDB:
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~
   “System DataBase” (SysDB) is a multi-backend system management and inventory
-  collection service. It may be used to (continuously) collect information
-  about your systems from various backends (inventory services, monitoring
-  services, etc.) and provides a unique interface to access the information
-  independent of the active backends.
+  collection service. It stores system and inventory information about
+  hardware and software systems. This information is (continuously) collected
+  from various configurable backends (inventory services, monitoring services,
+  etc.) and stored in a graph-like hierarchy of generic objects. The store may
+  be queried through a generic interface independent of the active backends.
+  Object names are canonicalized before they are added to the store to ensure
+  a consistent view of your infrastructure.
 
   <https://github.com/tokkee/sysdb>
 

diff --git a/doc/sysdb-description.txt b/doc/sysdb-description.txt
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-SysDB stores system and inventory information about hardware and software
-systems. This information is stored in a graph-like hierarchy of generic
-objects. The central object type is a host, which generally represents a
-physical or virtual machine or any other type of physical resource. Hosts, in
-turn, may reference a list of services which represent any kind of logical
-resource like a software system. Both, hosts and services, may reference a
-list of attributes which represent further information about the respective
-host or service object. For example, attributes may specify static information
-like a host's architecture or the software version or snapshots of performance
-data like the current memory utilization or much more.
+“System DataBase” (SysDB) is a multi-backend system management and inventory
+collection service. It stores system and inventory information about hardware
+and software systems. This information is (continuously) collected from
+various configurable backends (inventory services, monitoring services, etc.)
+and stored in a graph-like hierarchy of generic objects. The store may be
+queried through a generic interface independent of the active backends. Object
+names are canonicalized before they are added to the store to ensure a
+consistent view of your infrastructure.
+
+The central object type is a host, which generally represents a physical or
+virtual machine or any other type of physical resource. Hosts, in turn, may
+reference a list of services which represent any kind of logical resource like
+a software system. Both, hosts and services, may reference a list of
+attributes which represent further information about the respective host or
+service object. For example, attributes may specify static information like a
+host's architecture or the software version or reference performance data like
+the current memory utilization or much more.
 

diff --git a/doc/sysdbd.1.txt b/doc/sysdbd.1.txt
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 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 *sysdbd* is a multi-backend system management and inventory collection daemon.
-It may be used to (continuously) collect information from various backends
-(e.g., inventory services, monitoring services, configuration services) and
-provides a uniform combined view of all data.
+It stores system and inventory information about hardware and software
+systems. This information is (continuously) collected from various
+configurable backends.
 
 The main daemon itself is the central instance managing all collected
 information and doing the correlation of objects provided by different