Methods and apparatus for dependency-based impact simulation and vulnerability analysis
First Claim
1. A computer-based method for determining a potential impact of a simulated condition of at least one subject component associated with a computing environment, the method comprising the steps of:
- identifying one or more components in the computing environment which depend on the at least one subject component and determining a potential condition status associated with each of the one or more identified components; and
presenting information to a user with respect to at least a portion of the one or more identified components based on the corresponding condition status.
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Abstract
A technique for determining a potential impact of a simulated condition of at least one subject component associated with a computing environment comprises the following steps/operations. First, one or more components in the computing environment which depend on the at least one subject component are identified and a potential condition status associated with each of the one or more identified components is determined. Then, information is presented to a user with respect to at least a portion of the one or more identified components based on the corresponding condition status. By way of example, the inventive techniques may be applied to a distributed computing environment. The computing environment may also be an autonomic computing environment.
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30 Claims
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1. A computer-based method for determining a potential impact of a simulated condition of at least one subject component associated with a computing environment, the method comprising the steps of:
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identifying one or more components in the computing environment which depend on the at least one subject component and determining a potential condition status associated with each of the one or more identified components; and
presenting information to a user with respect to at least a portion of the one or more identified components based on the corresponding condition status. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. Apparatus for determining a potential impact of a simulated condition of at least one subject component associated with a computing environment, the apparatus comprising:
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at least one processor operative to;
(i) identify one or more components in the computing environment which depend on the at least one subject component and determine a potential condition status associated with each of the one or more identified components; and
(ii) cause the presentation of information to a user with respect to at least a portion of the one or more identified components based on the corresponding condition status; and
memory, coupled to the at least one processor, operative to store at least a portion of results associated with the identifying and presenting operations. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. An article of manufacture for determining a potential impact of a simulated condition of at least one subject component associated with a computing environment, comprising a machine readable medium containing one or more programs which when executed implement the steps of:
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identifying one or more components in the computing environment which depend on the at least one subject component and determining a potential condition status associated with each of the one or more identified components; and
presenting information to a user with respect to at least a portion of the one or more identified components based on the corresponding condition status.
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