Correlating computing network events

• US 9,438,645 B2
• Filed: 02/24/2013
• Issued: 09/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Stern, Edith H., Stewart, Kristian J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): Derose, Volvick
• Application Number:
  US13/775,205
• Publication Number:
  US 20140156830A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,290 Days
• Field of Search: 714/25
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0613 based on the type or category of the network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0631 using root cause analysis; using analysis of correlation between notifications, alarms or events based on decision criteria, e.g. hierarchy, tree or time analysis
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/065 involving logical or physical relationship, e.g. grouping and hierarchies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0668 by dynamic selection of recovery network elements, e.g. replacement by the most appropriate element after failure
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0686 Additional information in the notification, e.g. enhancement of specific meta-data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0843 based on generic templates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method and technique for correlating computing network events is disclosed. The method includes: receiving a plurality of events at an event manager residing on a host computing system; identifying a first resource associated with a first event; identifying a second resource associated with a second event; determining whether the first resource is associated with a deployment pattern; determining whether the second resource is associated with a deployment pattern; and responsive to determining that the first and second resources are each associated with a deployment pattern, correlating the first and second events responsive to the first and second resources being associated with a common deployment pattern.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a plurality of events at an event manager residing on a host computing system;

identifying a first resource associated with a first event;

identifying a second resource associated with a second event;

determining whether the first resource is associated with a first deployment pattern, the first deployment defined by a first template of resources provisioned for a first computing service;

determining whether the second resource is associated with a second deployment pattern, the second deployment pattern defined by a second template of resources provisioned for a second computing service; and

responsive to determining that the first and second resources are each associated with the respective first and second deployment patterns, correlating the first and second events responsive to the first and second resources being associated with a common deployment pattern.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing an indication of the correlated events.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

responsive to a request to deploy the first or second resource, identifying the respective first or second deployment pattern corresponding to the request;

identifying a target resource for the deployment based on the identified deployment pattern;

deploying the target resource; and

storing an association of the deployed first or second resource with the respective first or second deployment pattern.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein providing the indication comprises condensing a plurality of indications of correlated events to a single indication.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein providing the indication comprises providing a visual indication of the correlated events.

6. A method, comprising:

identifying computing resources to be deployed;

receiving an identification of a correlation pattern comprising a set of the resources to be deployed;

assigning a correlation identifier to the correlation pattern; and

configuring each resource of the correlation pattern to include the correlation identifier with an event generated by the respective resource.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving a plurality of events from deployed resources;

identifying a correlation identifier associated with each of the plurality of received events; and

correlating the events having a common correlation identifier.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising providing an indication of the correlated events.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising associating the correlation pattern with a deployed application.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising providing the correlation identifier to the respective resources of the correlation pattern upon deployment of the respective resources.