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Providing assistance in making change decisions in a configurable managed environment

  • US 9,026,996 B2
  • Filed: 06/24/2013
  • Issued: 05/05/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In association with a configuration management database (CMDB) containing information that relates to configuration items (CIs) in a configurable managed system, wherein a change station is provided to make respective changes, a method executable by a data processing system for determining whether to allow a particular change that would affect at least a given one of the CIs, said method comprising the steps of:

  • acquiring information from said CMDB pertaining to the given CI that would be affected by said particular change;

    selectively processing said acquired information to compute a confidence level indicating a probability that said acquired information is correct based on a time of most recent synchronization of the given CI and a number of reads and writes of the given CI in the CMDB; and

    allowing said particular change to be made in said configurable system only if said confidence level is no less than a pre-specified minimum value.

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