NON-DISRUPTIVELY CHANGING SCOPE OF COMPUTER BUSINESS APPLICATIONS BASED ON DETECTED CHANGES IN TOPOLOGY

• US 20090171730A1
• Filed: 12/28/2007
• Published: 07/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Swanson, Michael D., Bobak, Mythili K., McConnell, Tim A.
• Application Number:
  US11/965,889
• Publication Number:
  US 20090171730A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/8
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/188 Electronic negotiation

Abstract

A change to resource scope is to be made. Responsive to the changed resource scope, the IT environment is changed. This change is performed non-disruptively. Further, during the change, management to the existing resource scope is continued.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of managing changes within an Information Technology (IT) environment, said method comprising:

determining one or more changes to be made to the IT environment, in response to a change in resource scope of a business application of the IT environment; and

non-disruptively effecting the one or more changes to be made to the IT environment, wherein the non-disruptively effecting comprises continuing to manage to an existing resource scope of the business application.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein resource scope includes at least one of one or more resources of the business application or one or more resource relationships of the business application.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

programmatically determining that one or more resources or relationships have been added/deleted to the IT environment; and

relating the one or more resources or relationships that have been added/deleted to the business application to determine the resource scope change.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, further comprising:

generating a proposed topology based on the change in resource scope; and

validating the proposed topology.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, wherein the generating comprises performing at least one of:

automatically including in the proposed topology one or more resources or relationships dependent on one or more resources included in the changed resource scope; and

automatically deleting form the proposed topology one or more dependent resources of a resource deleted from the resource scope.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the automatically including comprises using a filter to determine one or more resources or resource relationships to be included in the proposed topology.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, wherein the validating the proposed topology comprises determining whether the proposed topology is able to meet a goal established for the business application.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the determining the one or more changes to be made to the IT environment comprises generating a delta process that reflects one or more changes to be performed, effecting one or more resources of the business application.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the delta process comprises a difference between a process created for the existing resource scope and a process created for the changed resource scope.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the non-disruptively effecting the change comprises:

executing the process to prepare the IT environment for the one or more changes; and

non-disruptively switching to the changed resource scope.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising monitoring the process for completion.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the effecting the one or more changes comprises changing one or more event subscriptions.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the effecting the one or more changes comprises revising a list of resource data to retrieve.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the managing to the existing resource scope includes monitoring one or more resources of the business application.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the managing to the existing resource scope includes invoking one or more operations to prepare the IT environment, to recover the IT environment or to return the IT environment to previous state.

16. A system of managing changes within an Information Technology (IT) environment, said system comprising:

at least one processor to determine one or more changes to be made to the IT environment, in response to a change in resource scope of a business application of the IT environment; and

at least one processor to non-disruptively effect the one or more changes to be made to the IT environment, wherein the non-disruptively effecting comprises continuing to manage to an existing resource scope of the business application.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the non-disruptively effecting the change comprises:

executing a process to prepare the IT environment for the one or more changes, the process reflecting one or more changes to one or more resources of the business application to be performed; and

non-disruptively switching to the changed resource scope.

18. An article of manufacture comprising:

at least one computer usable medium having computer readable program code logic to facilitate managing changes within an Information Technology (IT) environment, said computer readable program code logic when executing performing the following;

determining one or more changes to be made to the IT environment, in response to a change in resource scope of a business application of the IT environment; and

non-disruptively effecting the one or more changes to be made to the IT environment, wherein the non-disruptively effecting comprises continuing to manage to an existing resource scope of the business application.

19. The article of manufacture of claim 18, further comprising:

programmatically determining that one or more resources or relationships have been added/deleted to the IT environment; and

relating the one or more resources or relationships that have been added/deleted to the business application to determine the resource scope change.

20. The article of manufacture of claim 18, wherein the non-disruptively effecting the change comprises:

executing a process to prepare the IT environment for the one or more changes, the process reflecting one or more changes to one or more resources of the business application to be performed; and

non-disruptively switching to the changed resource scope.