MONITORING THE DEPLOYMENT OF CODE ONTO A SYSTEM

• US 20150007163A1
• Filed: 06/26/2013
• Published: 01/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Goldberg, Itzhack, Sondhi, Neil, Herd, Jonathan D., Shevrin, Michael
• Application Number:
  US13/927,142
• Publication Number:
  US 20150007163A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/172
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/30 Monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3051 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the configuration of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring the presence of processing resources, peripherals, I/O links, software programs verification or detection of system hardware configuration G06F11/2247
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57

Abstract

A serial identification number of a system, the system having a system type and a system status is received. A database is accessed to obtain code detail records of the system associated with the serial identification number. Code details of the system are received. The serial identification number, the code detail records, and the code details of the system are analyzed to identify the system type and the system status. A suitable system update for the system, based on the system type and the system status is identified.

Claims

1. A method of monitoring deployment of code onto a system, the method comprising:

receiving a serial identification number of the system, the system having a system type and a system status;

accessing a database to obtain code detail records of the system associated with the serial identification number;

receiving code details of the system;

analyzing the serial identification number, the code detail records and the code details of the system

identifying the system type and the system status from the code detail records and the code details of the system; and

identifying a suitable system update for the system, based on the system type and the system status.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

installing the system update to the system; and

updating the code detail records of the system in the database to report the system update to the system.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

receiving a recall on the system update;

notifying the system of the recall on the system update;

removing the system update from the system;

installing a second system update to the system; and

updating the code detail records of the system in the database to report the removing of the system update and installation of the second system update to the system.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the suitable system update is no system update, the method further comprising:

notifying the system that the suitable system update is no system update.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the system status comprises past and current code-levels of the system.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the serial identification number and the code details are received from the system.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein a system agent responsible for monitoring, repairing, and updating the system collects information about the system, and wherein the serial identification number and code details are received by the system agent from the information about the system.

8. A system for monitoring deployment of code onto a system, the system comprising:

one or more processors configured with

a recipient tool adapted to receive a serial identification number of the system and code details of the system, the system having a system type and a system status;

a database adapted to provide code detail records of the system associated with the serial identification number;

an analyzing tool adapted to analyze the serial identification number, the code detail records and the code details of the system to identify the system type and the system status; and

an identification tool adapted to identify a suitable system update for the system, based on the system type and the system status.

9. The system of claim 8, further comprising:

an installation tool adapted to install the system update to the system, wherein the code detail records of the system in the database are updated to report the installation of the system update to the system.

10. The system of claim 9 further comprising:

a second recipient tool adapted to receive a recall on the system update;

a notification tool adapted to notify the system of the recall on the system update, wherein the installation tool removes the system update from the system, installs a second system update to the system, and the code detail records of the system are updated in the database to report the removing of the system update and the installation of the second system update to the system.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the identification tool identifies no system update for the suitable system update and notifies the system that the suitable system update is no system update.

12. The system of claim 8, where the identification tool identifies past and current code-levels of the system for the system status.

13. The system of claim 8 further comprising:

a system agent tool adapted to monitor the system, repair the system, update the system, and collect information about the system, and wherein the serial identification number and code details are received by the system agent from the information about the system.

14. A computer program product, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code comprising computer readable program code configured to:

receive a serial identification number of the system, the system having a system type and a system status;

access a database to obtain code detail records of the system associated with the serial identification number;

receive code details of the system;

analyze the serial identification number, the code detail records and the code details of the system to identify the system type and the system status; and

identify a suitable system update for the system based on the system type and the system status.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, further configured to:

install the system update to the system; and

update the code detail records of the system in the database to report the system update to the system.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, further configured to:

receive a recall on the system update;

notify the system of the recall on the system update;

remove the system update from the system;

install a second system update to the system; and

update the code detail records of the system in the database to report the removing of the system update and installation of the second system update to the system.

17. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the suitable system update is no system update, the computer program product further configured to:

notifying the system that the suitable system update is no system update.

18. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the system status comprises past and current code-levels of the system.

19. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the serial identification number and the code details are received from the system.

20. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein a system agent responsible for monitoring, repairing, and updating the system collects information about the system, and wherein the serial identification number and code details are received by the system agent from the information about the system.