Infrastructure auto discovery from business process models via middleware flows

• US 20050125768A1
• Filed: 07/09/2004
• Published: 06/09/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Computer Associates Think Inc. (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Computer Associates Think Inc. (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Wong, Wai, Young, Alan
• Granted Patent: US 7,912,749 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0633 Workflow analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations

Abstract

A method for infrastructure automatic discovery from business process models through middleware flows is provided. Data flow in an infrastructure is monitored to observe middleware flows. An information model is formed based on the observed middleware flows.

Claims

1. A method for infrastructure automatic discovery through analysis of middleware flows, comprising:

providing one or more IT services to monitor middleware flows in an IT infrastructure; and

forming an information model based on the observed middleware flows.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising determining dependency relationships amongst components of the IT infrastructure based on the observed middleware flows, and including the dependency relationships in the information model.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising analyzing the observed middleware flows to identify IT infrastructure components participating in the observed middleware flows.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

mapping business processes to components of the infrastructure according to the observed middleware flows.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising analyzing the observed middleware flows to map groupings of IT infrastructure components to respective business processes.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising modeling the mappings of the groupings of IT infrastructure components to corresponding types of middleware flows, to represent corresponding business processes.

7. The method of claim 5 further comprising determining, based on the observed middleware flows, a baseline state of the IT infrastructure for a business process participating in one or more of the observed middleware flows.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the IT services include management services, and the management services establish a baseline of metrics for the middleware flows.

9. A computer system, comprising:

a processor; and

a program storage device readable by the computer system, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the processor to perform the method claimed in claim 1.

10. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform the method claimed in claim 1.

11. A computer data signal transmitted in one or more segments in a transmission medium which embodies instructions executable by a computer to perform the method claimed in claim 1.

12. A method for infrastructure automatic discovery from business process models through middleware flows, comprising:

monitoring data flow in an infrastructure to observe middleware flows; and

forming an information model based on the observed middleware flows.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

mapping business processes to components of the infrastructure according to the observed middleware flows.

14. A computer system, comprising:

a processor; and

a program storage device readable by the computer system, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the processor to perform the method claimed in claim 12.

15. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform the method claimed in claim 12.

16. A computer data signal transmitted in one or more segments in a transmission medium which embodies instructions executable by a computer to perform the method claimed in claim 12.