Dynamic protection of one or more deployed copies of a master operating system image

• US 9,298,442 B2
• Filed: 10/24/2012
• Issued: 03/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bennah, Albert D., Rodriguez, Adrian X., Woods, Eric
• Primary Examiner(s): MITCHELL, JASON D
• Application Number:
  US13/659,116
• Publication Number:
  US 20140101422A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,252 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3003 Monitoring arrangements specially adapted to the computing system or computing system component being monitored
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3055 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the status of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring if the computing system is on, off, available, not available error or fault processing without redundancy G06F11/0703; error detection or correction by redundancy in data representation G06F11/08; error detection or correction by redundancy in operation G06F11/14; error detection or correction by redundancy in hardware G06F11/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/865 Monitoring of software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/63 Image based installation; Cloning; Build to order
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0816 the condition being an adaptation, e.g. in response to network events

Abstract

Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dynamic protection of one or more deployed copies of a master operating system image are provided. Embodiments include monitoring, by an image deployment monitor, an operational state of a deployed copy of a master operating system (OS) image; detecting, by the image deployment monitor, a change in the operational state of the deployed copy of the master OS image; in response to detecting the change, generating, by the image deployment monitor, a configuration recommendation to prevent the change from occurring in operational states of one or more other deployed copies of the master OS image; and providing, by the image deployment monitor, the configuration recommendation to the one or more other deployed copies of the master OS image.

Claims

1. A method of dynamic protection of one or more deployed copies of a master operating system image, the method comprising:

monitoring, by an image deployment monitor executing on a management server, an operational state of a first deployed copy of a master operating system (OS) image executing on a first client system, wherein the first client system is connected to the management server over a data communications network;

detecting, by the image deployment monitor, a change in the operational state of the deployed copy of the master OS image executing on the first client system;

in response to detecting the change, generating, by the image deployment monitor, a configuration recommendation to prevent the change in the operational state of the first deployed copy of the master OS image executing on the first client system from occurring in an operational state of a second deployed copy of the master OS image executing on a second client system, wherein the configuration recommendation recommends, for the second deployed copy of the master OS image executing on the second client system, a specific change in size of a resource allocation of a resource;

wherein the second deployed copy of the master OS image executing on the second client system includes an adjustment module configured to modify the second deployed copy of the master OS image based on the configuration recommendation; and

providing, by the image deployment monitor, the configuration recommendation to the second deployed copy of the master OS image executing on the second client system.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein providing, by the image deployment monitor, the configuration recommendation to the one or more other deployed copies of the master OS image includes updating a directory associated with at least one of the one or more deployed copies of the master OS image;

and

wherein the directory indicates at least one of default configurations settings for an operating system within the deployed copies of the master OS image and a list of blacklisted components.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the configuration recommendation recommends a change to default configuration settings for an operating system within the deployed copies of the master OS image.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the configuration recommendation recommends addition of a software component to a list of components blacklisted from being installed on the deployed copies of the master OS image.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein detecting, by the image deployment monitor, a change in the operational state of the deployed copy of a master OS image includes receiving an alert from the deployed copy of the master OS image;

and

wherein the alert indicates the change in the operational state of the deployed copy of the master OS image.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein each of the one or more deployed copies of the master OS image includes an adjustment module configured to modify the deployed copies of the master OS image based on the configuration recommendation.