US 10,374,810 B2Granted

Middleware system validation tool

AssigneeBank of America Corporation

InventorsMuppudathy Lakshminarayan, Satish S. Kekane, Sudheer Ganti

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Abstract

A middleware system validation tool includes a retrieval engine, and a network component status engine. The retrieval engine retrieves a pre-change activity status before software is modified on a network component. The middleware system validation tool retrieves a post-change status after the software is modified and compares the pre-change status to the post-change status to determine whether the software modification was successful. The middleware system validation tool receives certification information from the network component that includes information for an SSL certificate to determine whether the SSL certificate is valid.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A middleware system validation tool comprising:

a retrieval engine configured to:
receive a request to modify software on a network component;
retrieve a pre-change activity status from the network component, wherein the pre-change activity status comprises:
an indication of a pre-change processor usage of the network component and a pre-change application executing on the network component;
a pre-change instance status indicating one or more first middleware instances running on the network component;
and
a pre-change virtual machine status indicating one or more virtual machines running on the network component;
determine whether a change request status indicates that the modification of the software on the network component is complete;
and
receive a post-change activity status upon a determination that the modification of the software on the network component is complete, the post-change activity status comprising:
an indication of a post-change processor usage of the network component and a post-change application executing on the network component;
a post-change instance status indicating one or more second middleware instances running on the network component;
and
a post-change virtual machine status indicating one or more virtual machines running on the network component;
a network component status engine configured to:
receive the pre-change activity status;
receive the post-change activity status;
and
compare the pre-change activity status and the post-change activity status to determine whether the software modification is successful by:
comparing the post-change processor usage with the pre-change processor usage;
comparing the post-change application with the pre-change application;
determining whether the one or more second middleware instances includes the same number of middleware instances as the one or more first middleware instances;
determining whether the one or more second middleware instances includes the same types of middleware instances as the one or more first middleware instances;
and
determining whether the one or more virtual machines indicated by the post-change virtual machine status are the same as the one or more virtual machines indicated by the pre-change virtual machine status;
and
a certificate validation engine configured to:
receive certificate information from the network component upon a determination that the modification of the software on the network component is complete, the certificate information including information for a secure sockets layer (SSL) certificate;
determine whether the SSL certificate is valid;
upon a determination that the SSL certificate is invalid, generate a certificate signing request;
communicate the certificate signing request to a user;
receive a renewed SSL certificate;
and
communicate the renewed SSL certificate to the network component.

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A method comprising:

receiving a request to modify software on a network component;
retrieving a pre-change activity status from the network component, wherein the pre-change activity status comprises:
an indication of a pre-change processor usage of the network component and a pre-change application executing on the network component;
a pre-change instance status indicating one or more first middleware instances running on the network component;
and
a pre-change virtual machine status indicating one or more virtual machines running on the network component;
determining whether a change request status indicates that the modification of the software on the network component is complete;
receiving a post-change activity status upon a determination that the modification of the software on the network component is complete, the post-change activity status comprising:
an indication of a post-change processor usage of the network component and a post-change application executing on the network component;
a post-change instance status indicating one or more second middleware instances running on the network component;
and
a post-change virtual machine status indicating one or more virtual machines running on the network component;
receiving the pre-change activity status;
receiving the post-change activity status;
comparing the pre-change activity status and the post-change activity status to determine whether the software modification is successful by:
comparing the post-change processor usage with the pre-change processor usage;
comparing the post-change application with the pre-change application;
determining whether the one or more second middleware instances includes the same number of middleware instances as the one or more first middleware instances;
determining whether the one or more second middleware instances includes the same types of middleware instances as the one or more first middleware instances;
and
determining whether the one or more virtual machines indicated by the post-change virtual machine status are the same as the one or more virtual machines indicated by the pre-change virtual machine status;
receiving certificate information from the network component upon a determination that the modification of the software on the network component is complete, the certificate information including information for a secure sockets layer (SSL) certificate;
determining whether the SSL certificate is valid;
upon a determination that the SSL certificate is invalid, generating a certificate signing request;
communicating the certificate signing request to a user;
receiving a renewed SSL certificate;
and
communicating the renewed SSL certificate to the network component.

25 more elements

A system comprising:

a network component;
and
a middleware system validation tool comprising:
a retrieval engine configured to:
receive a request to modify software on a network component;
retrieve a pre-change activity status from the network component, wherein the pre-change activity status comprises:
an indication of a pre-change processor usage of the network component and a pre-change application executing on the network component;
a pre-change instance status indicating one or more first middleware instances running on the network component;
and
a pre-change virtual machine status indicating one or more virtual machines running on the network component;
determine whether a change request status indicates that the modification of the software on the network component is complete;
and
receive a post-change activity status upon a determination that the modification of the software on the network component is complete, the post-change activity status comprising:
an indication of a post-change processor usage of the network component and a post-change application executing on the network component;
a post-change instance status indicating one or more second middleware instances running on the network component;
and
a post-change virtual machine status indicating one or more virtual machines running on the network component;
a network component status engine configured to:
receive the pre-change activity status;
receive the post-change activity status;
and
compare the pre-change activity status and the post-change activity status to determine whether the software modification is successful by:
comparing the post-change processor usage with the pre-change processor usage;
comparing the post-change application with the pre-change application;
determining whether the one or more second middleware instances includes the same number of middleware instances as the one or more first middleware instances;
determining whether the one or more second middleware instances includes the same types of middleware instances as the one or more first middleware instances;
and
determining whether the one or more virtual machines indicated by the post-change virtual machine status are the same as the one or more virtual machines indicated by the pre-change virtual machine status;
and
a certificate validation engine configured to:
receive certificate information from the network component upon a determination that the modification of the software on the network component is complete, the certificate information including information for a secure sockets layer (SSL) certificate;
and
determine whether the SSL certificate is valid;
upon a determination that the SSL certificate is invalid, generate a certificate signing request;
communicate the certificate signing request to a user;
receive a renewed SSL certificate;
and
communicate the renewed SSL certificate to the network component.

35 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/399,375Filed 5 Jan 2017
Published: US 2018/0191509 A15 Jul 2018
Granted: 6 Aug 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H04L 9/3268
Involving certificates, e.g. public key certificate [PKC] or attribute certificate [AC]; Public key infrastructure [PKI] arrangements: using…
G06F 8/65
Software deployment: updates
G06F 9/45558
Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors: hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
H04L 67/34
Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications: involving the movement of software or configuration parameters

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