METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODELING, VALIDATING AND AUTOMATICALLY RESOLVING GOALS AND DEPENDENCIES BETWEEN ELEMENTS WITHIN A TOPOLOGY

• US 20090183028A1
• Filed: 01/15/2008
• Published: 07/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Markin, Narinder, Yeung, Alice Tse Yun, Konstantinou, Alexander V., Vytas, Paul Darius, Holliday, Chad M., Blancett, Brad Lee, Berg, Daniel Christopher, Eilam, Tamar, Kalantar, Michael Husayn, ELDER, MICHAEL D., Trossman, Andrew Neil, Swanke, John Eric, Snible, Edward Charles, Arnold, William Carlisle
• Granted Patent: US 8,126,692 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

Computer implemented method, system and computer usable program code for configuring a computing system. A determination is made whether there are any errors in the model, and responsive to determining that there is at least one error in the model, a determination is made whether there is at least one resolution for correcting the at least one error. Responsive to determining that there is at least one resolution for correcting the at least one error, at least one resolution among the at least one resolution for correcting the at least one error is selected to form at least one selected resolution to correct the at least one error. The at least one selected resolution is applied to the model to form a transformed model, and the transformed model is output to a user.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for configuring a computing system, comprising:

creating a model of a computing system;

determining whether there are any errors in the model;

responsive to determining that there is at least one error in the model, determining whether there is at least one resolution for correcting the at least one error;

responsive to determining that there is at least one resolution for correcting the at least one error;

selecting at least one resolution among the at

least one resolution for correcting the at least one error to form at least one selected resolution to correct the at least one error; and

applying the at least one selected resolution to the model to form a transformed model; and

outputting the transformed model to a user.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein creating a model of a computing system includes identifying relationships among resources in the model.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 2, wherein identifying relationships among resources in the model, comprises:

identifying at least one of hosting requirements between two resources in the model, dependency requirements between resources in the model, and membership links defining constraints between resources.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining whether there are any errors in the model comprises:

validating the model in accordance with validation rules which define constraints on the model to identify any errors in the model.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 4, wherein validating the model in accordance with validation rules comprises:

validating the model in separate threads of execution of the model.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein selecting at least one resolution among the at least one resolution for correcting the at least one error to form at least one selected resolution to correct the at least one error, comprises one of a user and a configuring system selecting the at least one resolution among the at least one resolution for correcting the at least one error to form the at least one selected resolution to correct the at least one error.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 1, and further comprising:

repeating the determining, selecting and applying steps with respect to the transformed model.

8. The computer implemented method of claim 1, and further comprising:

responsive to determining that there are no errors in the model, outputting the model to the user.

9. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the computing system comprises one of a complete computing system, a subunit of a computing system and a collection of computing systems.

10. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the computing system comprises at least one of a hardware system and a software system.

11. A computer implemented method for configuring a computing system, comprising:

creating a model of a computing system;

determining whether there are any errors in the model by validating the model in accordance with validation rules;

responsive to determining that there is at least one error in the model, determining whether there is at least one resolution for correcting the at least one error;

responsive to determining that there is at least one resolution for correcting the at least one identified error in the model;

selecting at least one resolution among the at least one resolution for correcting the at least one error to form at least one selected resolution to correct the at least one error; and

applying the at least one selected resolution to the model to form a transformed model;

repeating the determining, selecting and applying steps with respect to a transformed model until it is determined that there are no errors in the transformed model; and

outputting the transformed model to a user.