Automatically generating a review rating the performance of a pattern based on pattern deployment, service history and operation of pattern

• US 9,235,854 B1
• Filed: 10/08/2014
• Issued: 01/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Quirk, Aaron J., Sun, Lin, Tost, Andre, O'Donnell, Mary K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Franklin, Jamara
• Application Number:
  US14/509,415
• Time in Patent Office: 461 Days
• Field of Search: 23546201-46249, 235487-494, 235/376
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0282 Rating or review of business operators or products
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5009 Determining service level performance parameters or violations of service level contracts, e.g. violations of agreed response time or mean time between failures [MTBF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5032 Generating service level reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5096 wherein the managed service relates to distributed or central networked applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation

Abstract

A method, system and computer program product for generating a review rating the performance of a pattern. The deployment of a pattern, the service history of the pattern and the operation of the pattern are monitored and information pertaining to the monitored pattern deployment, the monitored service history and the monitored pattern operation is collected, where a pattern is an abstract model of a topology and application environment that encapsulates installation, configuration and management of middleware and applications. The collected information is analyzed to automatically generate a review that contains a score and a comment rating the performance, such as the success or lack of success, in deploying, servicing and operating the pattern. In this manner, a review of a pattern, including a score and a suggested comment, may be automatically generated without requiring the user, such as a system administrator, to spend time writing the review.

Claims

1. A computer program product for generating a review rating a performance of a pattern, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code comprising the programming instructions for:

monitoring a deployment of a pattern, wherein said pattern is a model of a topology and application environment that encapsulates installation, configuration and management of middleware and applications;

collecting information pertaining to said pattern deployment based on said monitoring of said pattern deployment;

monitoring a service history of said pattern;

collecting information pertaining to said service history of said pattern based on said monitoring of said service history of said pattern;

monitoring an operation of said pattern;

collecting information pertaining to said operation of said pattern based on said monitoring of said operation of said pattern;

analyzing said information pertaining to said pattern deployment, said service history of said pattern and said operation of said pattern; and

generating a review rating a performance of said pattern based on said analysis, wherein said review comprises a score and a comment.

2. The computer program product as recited in claim 1, wherein said information pertaining to said pattern deployment, said service history of said pattern and said operation of said pattern is collected in logs.

3. The computer program product as recited in claim 2, wherein the program code further comprises the programming instructions for:

analyzing said logs containing said information pertaining to said pattern deployment, said service history of said pattern and said operation of said pattern; and

generating said review comprising said score and said comment for said pattern based on said analysis of said logs.

4. The computer program product as recited in claim 1, wherein the program code further comprises the programming instructions for:

sending said review to a system administrator to be edited or approved.

5. The computer program product as recited in claim 4, wherein the program code further comprises the programming instructions for:

posting said review to a review system in response to said system administrator approving said review.

6. The computer program product as recited in claim 1, wherein the program code further comprises the programming instructions for:

receiving a selection to build a new pattern or edit a previously cloned pattern; and

building said new pattern or editing said previously cloned pattern;

wherein said deployed pattern corresponds to said built new pattern or said edited cloned pattern.

7. A system, comprising:

a memory unit for storing a computer program for generating a review rating a performance of a pattern; and

a processor coupled to the memory unit, wherein the processor is configured to execute the program instructions of the computer program comprising;

monitoring a deployment of a pattern, wherein said pattern is a model of a topology and application environment that encapsulates installation, configuration and management of middleware and applications;

collecting information pertaining to said pattern deployment based on said monitoring of said pattern deployment;

monitoring a service history of said pattern;

collecting information pertaining to said service history of said pattern based on said monitoring of said service history of said pattern;

monitoring an operation of said pattern;

collecting information pertaining to said operation of said pattern based on said monitoring of said operation of said pattern;

analyzing said information pertaining to said pattern deployment, said service history of said pattern and said operation of said pattern; and

generating a review rating a performance of said pattern based on said analysis, wherein said review comprises a score and a comment.

8. The system as recited in claim 7, wherein said information pertaining to said pattern deployment, said service history of said pattern and said operation of said pattern is collected in logs.

9. The system as recited in claim 8, wherein the program instructions of the computer program further comprises:

analyzing said logs containing said information pertaining to said pattern deployment, said service history of said pattern and said operation of said pattern; and

generating said review comprising said score and said comment for said pattern based on said analysis of said logs.

10. The system as recited in claim 7, wherein the program instructions of the computer program further comprises:

sending said review to a system administrator to be edited or approved.

11. The system as recited in claim 10, wherein the program instructions of the computer program further comprises:

posting said review to a review system in response to said system administrator approving said review.

12. The system as recited in claim 7, wherein the program instructions of the computer program further comprises:

receiving a selection to build a new pattern or edit a previously cloned pattern; and

building said new pattern or editing said previously cloned pattern;

wherein said deployed pattern corresponds to said built new pattern or said edited cloned pattern.