Information processing apparatus and method therefor

• US 9,336,019 B2
• Filed: 09/06/2013
• Issued: 05/10/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Sekiguchi, Atsuji, Matsubara, Masazumi, Wada, Yuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Wang, Albert
• Application Number:
  US14/020,159
• Publication Number:
  US 20140013099A1
• Time in Patent Office: 977 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0803 Configuration setting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0843 based on generic templates

Abstract

An extracting unit extracts, from a collection of procedure information sets individually indicating operating procedures for configuration modification of systems according to contents of the configuration modification, in which operating procedures specific information pieces of the individual systems have been replaced with individually corresponding variable names, a procedure information set indicating an operating procedure according to a content of the configuration modification to be applied to a modification-target system. A replacing unit replaces a variable name in the extracted procedure information set with a corresponding specific information piece of the modification-target system, which specific information piece is acquired from a configuration information set defining a configuration of the modification-target system.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to perform a procedure including;

acquiring a procedure log indicating a series of operations for a configuration modification, input to a management-target system and including, into a collection of procedure information sets, the procedure log after replacing a specific information piece in the procedure log with a corresponding variable name;

extracting, from the collection of procedure information sets, a procedure information set indicating an operating procedure according to a content of the configuration modification to be applied to a modification-target system; and

replacing a variable name in the extracted procedure information set with a corresponding specific information piece of the modification-target system, which specific information piece is acquired from a configuration information set defining a configuration of the modification-target system.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the replacing includes acquiring the specific information piece from a location in the configuration information set by determining the location of the specific information piece with reference to a storage device that stores therein correspondences between the variable names included in the collection of procedure information sets and location information pieces individually indicating locations in configuration information sets defining configurations of individual systems, at which locations the specific information pieces individually corresponding to the variable names are found.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the replacing of the specific information piece in the procedure log includes detecting, in the procedure log, a character string matching a predefined string pattern and determining the character string, which is a value set for an attribute, as the specific information piece.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the procedure further includes detecting, from a configuration information set defining a configuration of the management-target system, an attribute of the replaced specific information piece in the procedure log and generating a location information piece defining an appearance location of the attribute in the configuration information set.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the generation of the location information piece includes including, in the location information piece, a relative location of the attribute to a location of information to be modified in the configuration information set according to the configuration modification.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the procedure further includes generating, based on the procedure log in plurality, digraphs in each of which pre-modification information and post-modification information of a configuration modified by the series of operations set out in a corresponding one of the procedure logs are connected by edges via nodes corresponding one-to-one with the operations of the procedure log, and representing the collection of procedure information sets using a procedure graph generated by combining the digraphs by bringing common operations therein together.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the extracting includes identifying a pre-modification configuration and a post-modification configuration for a case where configuration modification operations according to the content of the configuration modification to be applied to the modification-target system are executed, extracting, from the procedure graph, a path extending from the pre-modification configuration to the post-modification configuration along a direction of each edge therebetween, and extracting, from the collection of procedure information sets, a series of operations corresponding to nodes on the extracted path as the procedure information set according to the content of the configuration modification to be applied to the modification-target system.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the procedure further includes sorting, when a plurality of procedure information sets are extracted by the extracting, an order of the procedure information sets according to a predetermined criterion.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the sorting includes sorting the order of the procedure information sets in such a manner that a procedure information set including operations used more by unspecified users is placed higher in rank.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the sorting includes sorting the order of the procedure information sets in such a manner that a procedure information set including operations used more by a user managing the modification-target system is placed higher in rank.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the sorting includes sorting the order of the procedure information sets in such a manner that a procedure information set including fewer operations is placed higher in rank.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the sorting includes sorting the order of the procedure information sets in such a manner that a procedure information set taking less operational time according to operations included therein is placed higher in rank.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the sorting includes sorting the order of the procedure information sets in such a manner that a procedure information set having a higher ratio of operations executable on the modification-target system against total operations included in the procedure information set is placed higher in rank.

14. An information processing method comprising:

acquiring, by a processor, a procedure log indicating a series of operations for a configuration modification, input to a management-target system and including, into a collection of procedure information sets, the procedure log after replacing a specific information piece in the procedure log with a corresponding variable name;

extracting, by the processor, from the collection of procedure information sets, a procedure information set indicating an operating procedure according to a content of the configuration modification to be applied to a modification-target system; and

replacing, by the processor, a variable name in the extracted procedure information set with a corresponding specific information piece of the modification-target system, which specific information piece is acquired from a configuration information set defining a configuration of the modification-target system.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing an information processing program, the information processing program causing a computer to perform a procedure comprising:

acquiring a procedure log indicating a series of operations for a configuration modification, input to a management-target system and including, into a collection of procedure information sets, the procedure log after replacing a specific information piece in the procedure log with a corresponding variable name;

extracting, from the collection of procedure information sets, a procedure information set indicating an operating procedure according to a content of the configuration modification to be applied to a modification-target system; and

replacing a variable name in the extracted procedure information set with a corresponding specific information piece of the modification-target system, which specific information piece is acquired from a configuration information set defining a configuration of the modification-target system.