CONFIGURATION COMMAND TEMPLATE CREATION ASSISTANT USING CROSS-MODEL ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY COMMON SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS

• US 20150339135A1
• Filed: 07/31/2015
• Published: 11/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Croy, Timothy R., Graham, Trevor, Hamilton, Kevin M., Shuman, Steven S.
• Granted Patent: US 10,498,599 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0813 characterised by the conditions triggering a change of settings
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0843 based on generic templates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0853 by actively collecting configuration information or by backing up configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0893 Assignment of logical groups to network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/16 using machine learning or artificial intelligence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]

Abstract

In one embodiment, a computer program product for using a common configuration template for a set of devices includes a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code including computer readable program code configured for identifying a set of devices from the plurality of devices which share a common configuration template applicable to a proposed change, wherein the common configuration template includes a collection of command variations, computer readable program code configured for determining which command from the collection of command variations is applicable to each device in the set of devices, and computer readable program code configured for executing the proposed change across all devices in the set of devices using the determined command for each device.

Claims

1. A computer program product for using a common configuration template for a set of devices, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising:

computer readable program code configured for identifying a set of devices from the plurality of devices which share a common configuration template applicable to a proposed change, wherein the common configuration template comprises a collection of command variations;

computer readable program code configured for determining which command from the collection of command variations is applicable to each device in the set of devices; and

computer readable program code configured for executing the proposed change across all devices in the set of devices using the determined command for each device.

2. The computer program product as recited in claim 1, comprising computer readable program code configured for receiving the proposed change from a system administrator through a graphical user interface.

3. The computer program product as recited in claim 1, comprising:

computer readable program code configured for identifying subsequent sets of devices from the plurality of devices which share common configuration templates applicable to the proposed change until all devices in the plurality of devices are placed in sets;

computer readable program code configured for determining which commands are applicable to devices in each subsequent set of devices; and

computer readable program code configured for executing the proposed change across all devices in each subsequent set of devices using the determined commands for the devices in each subsequent set of devices.

4. The computer program product as recited in claim 1, wherein the computer readable program code configured for determining which command from the collection of command variations is applicable to each device in the set of devices comprises computer readable program code configured for automatically choosing, for each device in the set of devices, a command variation from the collection of command variations that is applicable to cause the proposed change in the device for which it is executed.