Correlating computing network events

• US 9,819,535 B2
• Filed: 04/26/2016
• Issued: 11/14/2017
• 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): Abbaszadeh, Jaweed A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Derose, Volvick
• Application Number:
  US15/138,828
• Publication Number:
  US 20160241428A1
• Time in Patent Office: 567 Days
• Field of Search: 709224
• 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 system, comprising:

a processor;

a deployment engine executable by the processor to;

discover a topology of a computing environment;

identify resources to deploy in the computing environment; and

deploy the resources in the computing environment; and

an event manager executable by the processor to receive and process events corresponding to the deployed resources, the event manager configured to;

receive an alert of a first event;

identify a first resource associated with the first event;

receive an alert of a second event;

identify a second resource associated with the second event;

search a database of stored resource sets for the first and second resources, each resource set indicating resources deployed in the computing environment according to a deployment template, the deployment template defining resources provisioned for a computing service;

determine whether the first and second resources belong to a common resource set; and

responsive to determining that the first and second resources belong to the common resource set, correlate the first and second events.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the event manager is operable to provide an indication of the correlated events.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the event manager is operable to condense a plurality of indications of correlated events to a single indication.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the event manager is operable to provide a visual indication of the correlated events.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the deployment engine is configured to:

responsive to receiving a request to deploy the first or second resource, identify the deployment template corresponding to the request;

identify a target resource for the deployment based on the identified deployment template; and

deploy the target resource.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the event manager is operable to store an association of the deployed first or second resource with the deployment template.

7. A computer program product for correlating computing network events, the computer program product comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising computer readable program code configured to;

discover a topology of a computing environment;

identify resources to deploy in the computing environment;

deploy the resources in the computing environment;

receive an alert of a first event;

identify a first resource associated with the first event;

receive an alert of a second event;

identify a second resource associated with the second event;

search a database of stored resource sets for the first and second resources, each resource set indicating resources deployed in the computing environment according to a deployment template, the deployment template defining resources provisioned for a computing service;

determine whether the first and second resources belong to a common resource set; and

responsive to determining that the first and second resources belong to the common resource set, correlate the first and second events.

8. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the computer readable program code is configured to provide an indication of the correlated events.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the computer readable program code is configured to condense a plurality of indications of correlated events to a single indication.

10. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the computer readable program code is configured to provide a visual indication of the correlated events.

11. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the computer readable program code is configured to:

responsive to receiving a request to deploy the first or second resource, identify the deployment template corresponding to the request;

identify a target resource for the deployment based on the identified deployment template; and

deploy the target resource.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer readable program code is configured to store an association of the deployed first or second resource with the deployment template.