DYNAMIC PROTECTION OF A MASTER OPERATING SYSTEM IMAGE

• US 20140101421A1
• Filed: 10/24/2012
• Published: 04/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: BENNAH, ALBERT D., VRABEL, ROBERT A.
• Granted Patent: US 9,208,042 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2289 by configuration test
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/63 Image based installation; Cloning; Build to order

Abstract

Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dynamic protection of a master operating system image are provided. Embodiments include monitoring, by an image deployment monitor, an operational state of a deployed copy of a master operating system (OS) image; detecting, by the image deployment monitor, a change in the operational state of the deployed copy of the master OS image; in response to detecting the change, generating, by the image deployment monitor, a configuration recommendation to prevent the change from occurring in operational states of future deployed copies of the master OS image; and providing, by the image deployment monitor, the configuration recommendation to the master OS image.

Claims

1. A method of dynamic protection of a master operating system image, the method comprising:

monitoring, by an image deployment monitor, an operational state of a deployed copy of a master operating system (OS) image;

detecting, by the image deployment monitor, a change in the operational state of the deployed copy of the master OS image;

in response to detecting the change, generating, by the image deployment monitor, a configuration recommendation to prevent the change from occurring in operational states of future deployed copies of the master OS image; and

providing, by the image deployment monitor, the configuration recommendation to the master OS image.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

detecting, by the image deployment monitor, a configuration change to the deployed copy of the master OS image; and

wherein generating a configuration recommendation includes identifying the configuration change as the cause of the change in the operational state of the deployed copy of the master OS image;

wherein the configuration recommendation prevents the configuration change from occurring in future deployed copies of the master operating system image.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the configuration change is associated with installation of a software component to the deployed copy of the master OS image;

and wherein the configuration recommendation prevents the installation of the software component on future deployed copies of the master OS image.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the master OS image includes an adjustment module configured to modify future deployed copies of the master OS image based on the configuration recommendation.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the master OS image includes an adjustment module configured to modify the master OS image based on the configuration recommendation.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the image deployment monitor is located on a management server;

wherein the deployed copy of the master OS image is located on a client system.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the image deployment monitor and the deployed copy of the master OS image are located on a client system.

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