RESOURCE CORRELATION PREDICTION

• US 20090254652A1
• Filed: 04/07/2008
• Published: 10/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Zhang, Lifeng, Binswanger, Kevin M., Ting, Christopher C.
• Application Number:
  US12/098,799
• Publication Number:
  US 20090254652A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/00 Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0856 by backing up or archiving configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to resource mapping in a change configuration and systems monitoring solution and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for predictively mapping automatically discovered resources in a monitored system with a manually specified resource for the monitored system. In an embodiment of the invention, a resource mapping method for application dependency and discovery can be provided. The method can include automatically discovering resources in a monitored system, manually specifying a resource in the monitored system, filtering the automatically discovered resources to a set of resources likely to match the manually specified resource, and mapping the manually specified resource to a resource in the filtered set of resources.

Claims

1. A resource mapping method for application dependency and discovery, the method comprising:

automatically discovering resources in a monitored system;

manually specifying a resource in the monitored system;

filtering the automatically discovered resources to a set of resources likely to match the manually specified resource; and

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mapping the manually specified resource to a resource in the filtered set of resources.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein filtering the automatically discovered resources to a set of resources likely to match the manually specified resource comprises filtering the automatically discovered resources to a set of resources correlating to the manually specified resource according to a similar set of respective system lists.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein filtering the automatically discovered resources to a set of resources likely to match the manually specified resource comprises filtering the automatically discovered resources to a set of resources correlating to the manually specified resource according to a similar set of respective product information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein filtering the automatically discovered resources to a set of resources likely to match the manually specified resource comprises filtering the automatically discovered resources to a set of resources correlating to the manually specified resource according to a similar set of respective resource names.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein filtering the automatically discovered resources to a set of resources likely to match the manually specified resource comprises filtering the automatically discovered resources to a set of resources correlating to the manually specified resource according to a similar set of respective resource tags.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein mapping the manually specified resource to a resource in the filtered set of resources comprises:

rendering a two-pane view;

presenting the manually specified resource in first pane of the two-pane view;

presenting the filtered set of resources in a second pane of the two-pane view; and

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visually mapping the manually specified resource in the first pane to a resource in the filtered set of resources in the second pane.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein mapping the manually specified resource to a resource in the filtered set of resources further comprises storing the mapping in a configuration management database (CMDB).

8. An application dependency and discovery data processing system comprising:

a configuration management database (CMDB);

an application dependency and discovery server coupled to the CMDB;

a discovery engine coupled to the application dependency and discovery server and configured to automatically discover resources in a communicatively linked monitored system; and

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predictive resource mapping logic coupled to the discovery engine and comprising program code enabled to filter the automatically discovered resources to a set of resources likely to match a manually specified resource, to map the manually specified resource to a resource in the filtered set of resources, and to store the mapping in the CMDB.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the program code of the predictive resource mapping logic comprises program code enabled to filter the automatically discovered resources to a set of resources correlating to a manually specified resource according to criteria selected from the group consisting of a similar set of respective system lists, product information, resource names and resource tags.

10. The system of claim 8, further comprising a two-pane view rendered by the predictive resource mapping logic, the view comprising one pane presenting the manually specified resource and a second pane presenting the filtered set of resources.

11. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium embodying computer usable program code for resource mapping for application dependency and discovery, the computer program product comprising:

computer usable program code for automatically discovering resources in a monitored system;

computer usable program code for manually specifying a resource in the monitored system;

computer usable program code for filtering the automatically discovered resources to a set of resources likely to match the manually specified resource; and

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computer usable program code for mapping the manually specified resource to a resource in the filtered set of resources.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer usable program code for filtering the automatically discovered resources to a set of resources likely to match the manually specified resource comprises computer usable program code for filtering the automatically discovered resources to a set of resources correlating to the manually specified resource according to a similar set of respective system lists.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer usable program code for filtering the automatically discovered resources to a set of resources likely to match the manually specified resource comprises computer usable program code for filtering the automatically discovered resources to a set of resources correlating to the manually specified resource according to a similar set of respective product information.

14. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer usable program code for filtering the automatically discovered resources to a set of resources likely to match the manually specified resource comprises computer usable program code for filtering the automatically discovered resources to a set of resources correlating to the manually specified resource according to a similar set of respective resource names.

15. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer usable program code for filtering the automatically discovered resources to a set of resources likely to match the manually specified resource comprises computer usable program code for filtering the automatically discovered resources to a set of resources correlating to the manually specified resource according to a similar set of respective resource tags.

16. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer usable program code for mapping the manually specified resource to a resource in the filtered set of resources comprises:

computer usable program code for rendering a two-pane view;

computer usable program code for presenting the manually specified resource in first pane of the two-pane view;

computer usable program code for presenting the filtered set of resources in a second pane of the two-pane view; and

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computer usable program code for visually mapping the manually specified resource in the first pane to a resource in the filtered set of resources in the second pane.

17. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer usable program code for mapping the manually specified resource to a resource in the filtered set of resources further comprises computer usable program code for storing the mapping in a configuration management database (CMDB).