APPLICATION DISCOVERY USING STORAGE SYSTEM SIGNATURES

• US 20140379981A1
• Filed: 06/21/2013
• Published: 12/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: GlobalFoundries, Inc.
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Ramakrishnan, Arun, Shetty, Rohit, Krishna, Hari H.
• Application Number:
  US13/923,705
• Publication Number:
  US 20140379981A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/114
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

Exemplary embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and system for identifying one or more applications stored on a storage system that is shared by one or more computer systems. In a step, an exemplary embodiment accesses the storage system. In another step, an exemplary accesses one or more file tables associated with the storage system. In another step, an exemplary embodiment analyzes the one or more file tables and one or more files on the storage system that are associated with the one or more applications to identify the one or more applications. In another step, an exemplary embodiment analyzes the one or more file tables and the one or more files to identify a respective dependency of the one or more applications.

Claims

1. A method for identifying one or more applications stored on a storage system that is shared by one or more computer systems and for identifying a respective dependency of the one or more applications, the method composed of:

accessing the storage system;

accessing one or more file tables associated with the storage system;

analyzing the one or more file tables and one or more files on the storage system that are associated with the one or more applications to identify the one or more applications; and

analyzing the one or more file tables and the one or more files to identify the respective dependency of the one or more applications.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the storage system is a storage area network (SAN).

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising a step:

specifying one or more bit patterns that are a signature of an application to be identified on the storage system in an application list.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the analysis of the one or more file tables and the one or more files is accomplished with an application of one or more rules to the one or more file tables and the one or more files.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein:

the one or more rules include regular expressions.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein:

the one or more rules are applied on a result of the application of one or more rules.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the respective dependency that is identified is between applications that are identified.

8. A computer system to identify one or more applications stored on a storage system that is shared by one or more computer systems and to identify a respective dependency of the one or more applications, the computer system comprising:

one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories, one or more computer-readable tangible storage devices, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to access the storage system;

program instructions to access one or more file tables associated with the storage system;

program instructions to analyze the one or more file tables and one or more files on the storage system that are associated with the one or more applications to identify the one or more applications; and

program instructions to analyze the one or more file tables and the one or more files to identify the respective dependency of the one or more applications.

9. The computer system of claim 8 wherein:

the storage system is a storage area network (SAN).

10. The computer system of claim 8 further comprising:

program instructions to specify one or more bit patterns that are a signature of an application to be identified on the storage system in an application list.

11. The computer system of claim 8 wherein:

the analysis of the one or more file tables and the one or more files is accomplished with an application of one or more rules to the one or more file tables and the one or more files.

12. The computer system of claim 11 wherein:

the one or more rules include regular expressions.

13. The computer system of claim 11 wherein:

the one or more rules are applied on a result of the application of one or more rules.

14. The computer system of claim 8 wherein:

the respective dependency that is identified is between applications that are identified.

15. A computer program product to identify one or more applications stored on a storage system that is shared by one or more computer systems and to identify a respective dependency of the one or more applications, the computer program product comprising:

one or more computer-readable storage devices and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more tangible storage devices, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to access the storage system;

program instructions to access one or more file tables associated with the storage system;

program instructions to analyze the one or more file tables and one or more files on the storage system that are associated with the one or more applications to identify the one or more applications; and

program instructions to analyze the one or more file tables and the one or more files to identify the respective dependency of the one or more applications.

16. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein:

the storage system is a storage area network (SAN).

17. The computer program product of claim 15 further comprising:

program instructions to specify one or more bit patterns that are a signature of an application to be identified on the storage system in an application list.

18. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein:

the analysis of the one or more file tables and the one or more files is accomplished with an application of one or more rules to the one or more file tables and the one or more files.

19. The computer program product of claim 18 wherein:

the one or more rules include regular expressions.

20. The computer program product of claim 18 wherein:

the one or more rules are applied on a result of the application of one or more rules.