MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR MONITORING CLOUD COMPUTING

• US 20130159529A1
• Filed: 12/16/2011
• Published: 06/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Mitchell, Kent, Heintz, Jason, McCurdy, Hollie, Moon, Carroll, Miller, Mark, Feck, Brian, Nikodym, Lou, Ramalingam, Vadi
• Granted Patent: US 8,972,578 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/11 File system administration, e.g. details of archiving or snapshots file system backup G06F11/14

Abstract

An application provides cloud computing master data management. The application determines a rank associated with received server information from a server. The source rank is adjusted according to evaluation of server information against naming convention standards. The source rank is used in determining a category matching the server information. An assigned category includes instructions to configure assets of a server. The application assembles configuration information from the assigned category and provides the configuration information to the server.

Claims

1. A method executed at least in part in a computing device for providing cloud computing master data management, the method comprising:

receiving server information from a server;

determining a source rank associated with the server information;

determining at least one category for the server according to the source rank and the server information; and

providing configuration information associated with the at least one category.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one category includes a server role from the set of:

a customer server, a datacenter server, and a service server.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

creating the configuration information from;

relationship information with other cloud computing components, data store configuration, and executable code associated with the server information; and

storing the configuration information in a normalized data store.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

providing the configuration information from the normalized data store.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the configuration information includes business logic and rules to perform at least one from a set of:

creating a data store in the server;

deploying source code to the data store; and

creating data store objects and jobs associated with the source code in the data store.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

gathering business rules from manual and automated sources to map the server information to the at least one category.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving business rules for the source rank from one or more standards sources.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the one or more standards sources include at least one from a set of:

master data management methodology source, relational database integrity sources, computer asset lifecycle management sources, and customer metadata management sources.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the source rank further comprises evaluating data source information within the server information.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the source rank further comprises evaluating service information within the server information.

11. A computing device for providing cloud computing master data management, the computing device comprising:

a memory;

a processor coupled to the memory, the processor executing a management application and providing services associated with the management application to manage master data, wherein the processor is configured to;

receive server information from a server;

retrieve business rules for a source rank from a standards source including at least one from a set of;

a master data management methodology source,

a relational database integrity source,

a computer asset lifecycle management source, and

a customer metadata management source;

determine the source rank associated with the server information by analyzing the server information with the business rules of the source rank;

determine at least one category for the server according to the source rank and the server information; and

provide configuration information associated with the at least one category.

12. The computing device of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to:

retrieve a naming convention from the standards source.

13. The computing device of claim 12, wherein the processor is further configured to:

evaluate service names from the server information against the naming convention; and

adjust the source rank according to a number of matched service names against the naming convention.

14. The computing device of claim 13, wherein the naming convention stores service names in 3 letter acronyms in extensible markup language (XML) format.

15. The computing device of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to:

assign the at least one category to the server information based on the source rank meeting a predetermined threshold.

16. The computing device of claim 11, wherein the server is one from a set of:

a local server and a remote server.

17. A computer-readable memory device with instructions stored thereon for providing cloud computing master data management, the instructions comprising:

receiving server information from a server;

retrieving business rules for a source rank from a standards source including at least one from a set of;

a master data management methodology source, a relational database integrity source, a computer asset lifecycle management source, and a customer metadata management source;

determining the source rank associated with the server information by analyzing the server information with the business rules of the source rank;

retrieving a naming convention from the standards source;

evaluating service names from the server information against the naming convention;

adjusting the source rank according to number of matched service names against the naming convention;

determining at least one category for the server according to the source rank and the server information; and

providing configuration information associated with the at least one category.

18. The computer-readable memory device of claim 17, wherein the instruction further comprise:

adjusting an alerts configuration for the server according to the configuration information; and

detecting alerts from the server according to the alerts configuration.

19. The computer-readable memory device of claim 17, wherein the instructions further comprise:

adjusting a monitoring configuration for the server according to the configuration information; and

monitoring the server according to the monitoring configuration.

20. The computer-readable memory device of claim 19, wherein the instructions further comprise:

capturing performance metrics from the server according to the monitoring configuration.