Conformance authority reconciliation
AssigneeTripwire, Inc.
InventorsRobert A. DiFalco, Kenneth L. Keeler, Robert L. Warmack
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Abstract
An automated method for facilitating management of a data processing environment is disclosed. In various embodiments, the method may include facilitating detecting of a change to an element of a data processing device of the data processing environment. In various embodiments, the method may further include facilitating reconciling the change with a conformance authority, the conformance authority having one or more guidelines. Other embodiments of the present invention may include, but are not limited to, apparatuses adapted to facilitate practice of the above-described method.
Claims27
An automated, computer-implemented method for facilitating management of a data processing environment, the method comprising:
- by a change detection agent, detecting a change to an element of a data processing device of the data processing environment by comparing a state of the data processing device to a baseline state of the data processing device;
- separately from the detecting the change and also by the change detection agent, determining whether the detected change violates one or more guidelines of a conformance authority;
- responsive to determining that the detected change violates at least one of the guidelines, performing one or more responses;
- responsive to determining that the detected change does not violate the at least one of the guidelines, changing the baseline state to incorporate the change;
- reporting the detected change together with a performance parameter of the data processing device;
- and
- changing the one or more guidelines used by the change detection agent based on the reported performance parameter.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method, the method comprising:
- by a change detection agent, detecting a change to an element of a data processing device of a data processing environment by comparing a state of the data processing device to a baseline state of the data processing device;
- separately from the detecting the change and also by the change detection agent, determining whether the detected change violates one or more guidelines of a conformance authority;
- responsive to determining that the detected change violates at least one of the guidelines, performing one or more responses;
- responsive to determining that the detected change does not violate the at least one of the guidelines,
- changing the baseline state to incorporate the detected change;
- reporting the detected change together with a performance parameter of the data processing device;
- and
- changing the one or more guidelines used by the change detection agent based on the reported performance parameter.
The media of claim16, wherein the one or more guidelines include a device start-up configuration guideline that specifies a time-to-live (TTL) parameter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.