US 10,257,289 B2 · Capturing configuration items from hybrid-cloud provisioning data

Abstract

A method and associated systems for capturing configuration items from hybrid-cloud provisioning data. A processor of a service-management system intercepts a service request requesting that the hybrid cloud's orchestration mechanism provision or deprovision a configuration item of the hybrid cloud. The service-management system identifies the configuration item by examining the service request and then forwards the request to the cloud-orchestration mechanism. After confirming that the request has been satisfied, the service-management system retrieves from the orchestration mechanism provisioning information that describes attributes of the newly provisioned or deprovisioned configuration item and uses this information to update a configuration-management database, marking any provisioning information newly stored in the database as being authorized for use by other management systems of the hybrid cloud. The service-management system then enhances the stored data by means of an artificially intelligent analytics module and additional configuration-item data collected by a discovery agent.

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Dependent claims

A service-management system of a hybrid cloud comprising a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a computer-readable hardware storage device coupled to the processor, the storage device containing program code configured to be run by the processor via the memory to implement a method for capturing configuration items from hybrid-cloud provisioning data, the method comprising:

intercepting a service request directed to a cloud-orchestration mechanism of the hybrid cloud, where the service request is capable of requesting that the cloud-orchestration mechanism provision or deprovision a virtualized configuration item of the hybrid cloud;
extracting from the service request an identification of a request to provision a first configuration item of the hybrid cloud;
forwarding the service request to the cloud-orchestration mechanism;
determining that the cloud-orchestration mechanism has provisioned the first configuration item;
capturing provisioning information from the cloud-orchestration mechanism, where the captured provisioning information describes one or more attributes of the first configuration item;
and
updating a configuration-management database with the captured provisioning information, where data stored in the configuration-management database identifies attributes of one or more configuration items of the hybrid cloud.

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A method for capturing configuration items from hybrid-cloud provisioning data, the method comprising:

intercepting a service request directed to a cloud-orchestration mechanism of a hybrid cloud, where the service request is capable of requesting that the cloud-orchestration mechanism provision or deprovision a virtualized configuration item of the hybrid cloud;
extracting from the service request an identification of a request to provision a first configuration item of the hybrid cloud;
forwarding the service request to the cloud-orchestration mechanism;
determining that the cloud-orchestration mechanism has provisioned the first configuration item;
capturing provisioning information from the cloud-orchestration mechanism, where the captured provisioning information describes one or more attributes of the first configuration item;
and
updating a configuration-management database with the captured provisioning information, where data stored in the configuration-management database identifies attributes of one or more configuration items of the hybrid cloud.

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A computer program product, comprising a computer-readable hardware storage device having a computer-readable program code stored therein, the program code configured to be executed by a service-management system comprising a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a computer-readable hardware storage device coupled to the processor, the storage device containing program code configured to be run by the processor via the memory to implement a method for capturing configuration items from hybrid-cloud provisioning data, the method for capturing configuration items from hybrid-cloud provisioning data, the method comprising:

intercepting a service request directed to a cloud-orchestration mechanism of a hybrid cloud, where the service request is capable of requesting that the cloud-orchestration mechanism provision or deprovision a virtualized configuration item of the hybrid cloud;
extracting from the service request an identification of a request to provision a first configuration item of the hybrid cloud;
forwarding the service request to the cloud-orchestration mechanism;
determining that the cloud-orchestration mechanism has provisioned the first configuration item;
capturing provisioning information from the cloud-orchestration mechanism, where the captured provisioning information describes one or more attributes of the first configuration item;
and
updating a configuration-management database with the captured provisioning information, where data stored in the configuration-management database identifies attributes of one or more configuration items of the hybrid cloud.

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Capturing configuration items from hybrid-cloud provisioning data

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