System and method of enterprise systems and business impact management
First Claim
1. A method of providing business service management (BSM) of a business service, the method comprising:
- defining a business service model, representative of a business service, said business service to be managed by a plurality of programmable processing devices;
identifying physical IT resources capable of having an impact on the business service, wherein the physical IT resources are distributed throughout an IT infrastructure;
identifying logical IT resources capable of having an impact on the business service or on other logical IT resources capable of having a collective impact on the business service;
associating the identified physical and logical IT resources with processing cells, distributed throughout the IT infrastructure, and the business service model, wherein the processing cells execute on at least one of the programmable processing devices;
associating rules with the processing cells, the rules including an aggregation rule defining how one collected event is combinable with another collected event;
monitoring the physical IT resources for detectable information with at least one of the programmable processing devices, to create collected information;
receiving two or more events at least one of the processing cells;
evaluating the two or more received events, by at least one of the processing cells, using the aggregation rules associated therewith to create aggregated information;
abstracting the collected information and aggregated information to generate one or more abstract events for at least one of the logical IT resources; and
determining a status impact on the business service based at least in part on the generated abstract event(s).
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Abstract
A system architecture and a method for managing using a cellular architecture to allow multi-tier management of events such as the managing of the actual impact or the potential impact of IT infrastructure situations on business services. A preferred embodiment includes a high availability management backbone to frame monitoring operations using a cross-domain model where IT component events are abstracted into IT Aggregate events. By combining IT Aggregate events with transaction events, an operational representation of the business services is possible. Another feature is the ability to connect this information to dependent business user groups such as internal end-users or external customers for direct impact measurement. A web of peer-to-peer rule-based cellular event processors preferably using Dynamic Data Association constitutes management backbone crossed by event flows, the execution rules, and distributed set of dynamic inter-related object data rooted in the top data instances featuring the business services.
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23 Claims
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1. A method of providing business service management (BSM) of a business service, the method comprising:
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defining a business service model, representative of a business service, said business service to be managed by a plurality of programmable processing devices; identifying physical IT resources capable of having an impact on the business service, wherein the physical IT resources are distributed throughout an IT infrastructure; identifying logical IT resources capable of having an impact on the business service or on other logical IT resources capable of having a collective impact on the business service; associating the identified physical and logical IT resources with processing cells, distributed throughout the IT infrastructure, and the business service model, wherein the processing cells execute on at least one of the programmable processing devices; associating rules with the processing cells, the rules including an aggregation rule defining how one collected event is combinable with another collected event; monitoring the physical IT resources for detectable information with at least one of the programmable processing devices, to create collected information; receiving two or more events at least one of the processing cells; evaluating the two or more received events, by at least one of the processing cells, using the aggregation rules associated therewith to create aggregated information; abstracting the collected information and aggregated information to generate one or more abstract events for at least one of the logical IT resources; and determining a status impact on the business service based at least in part on the generated abstract event(s). - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A computer processor programmed to perform a method of providing business service management (BSM) of a business service based on a business service model, the method comprising a programmable processing device programmed to:
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receive a definition of a business service model, representative of a business service, said business service to be managed by a plurality of programmable processing devices; receive an identification of physical IT resources capable of having an impact on the business service wherein the physical IT resources are distributed throughout an IT infrastructure; receive an identification of logical IT resources capable of having an impact on the business service; receive information related to an association of the identified physical and logical IT resources with processing cells, distributed throughout the IT infrastructure, and the business service model, wherein the processing cells execute on at least one of the programmable processing devices; receive collected information regarding the monitoring of the physical IT resources; receive aggregated information from aggregation rules processed by at least one of the processing cells using aggregation rules association therewith; abstract the collected information and aggregated information to generate one or more abstract events for at least one of the logical IT resources; and determine a status impact on the business service based at least in part on the generated abstract event(s).
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