US 10,853,731 B2Granted

Rule based consistency management for complex systems

AssigneeOracle International Corporation

InventorsRaja Chatterjee, Ashishkumar Gor

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Abstract

Techniques are for rule-based continuous drift and consistency management for target systems. In one embodiment, a set of rules is stored in volatile or non-volatile store. The set of rules may include one or more drift rules and/or one or more consistency rules. A rule may be applied to one or more associated targets to detect drift or inconsistency. A drift rule identifies a set of one or more attributes and a source and may be applied by comparing a first configuration of the set of one or more attributes on an associated target with a second configuration of the set of one or more attributes on the source. A consistency rule may be applied to a composite target by comparing member targets that are grouped by target type. Notification data may be output if target drift or inconsistency is detected to alert a user.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

storing, in volatile or non-volatile storage, a composite template that includes a plurality of sub-templates;
wherein the plurality of sub-templates includes a first sub-template for targets of a first target type and a second sub-template for targets of a second target type;
for a composite target that includes a first set of member targets of the first target type, comparing, based on the first sub-template, configurations of the first set of member targets to determine whether the first set of member targets is consistent;
after said comparing, detecting at least one of an addition of a member target to the first set of member targets or a removal of a member target from the first set of member targets;
in response to said detecting, determining that the first set of member targets is not consistent based on at least re-comparing, based on the first sub-template, configurations of the first set of member targets;
in response to determining that the first set of member targets is not consistent, outputting notification data that indicates that the composite target is not consistent;
wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.

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One or more non-transitory storage media storing sequences of instructions, which when executed by one or more processors, cause:

storing, in volatile or non-volatile storage, a composite template that includes a plurality of sub-templates;
wherein the plurality of sub-templates includes a first sub-template for targets of a first target type and a second sub-template for targets of a second target type;
for a composite target that includes a first set of member targets of the first target type, comparing, based on the first sub-template, configurations of the first set of member targets to determine whether the first set of member targets is consistent;
after said comparing, detecting at least one of an addition of a member target to the first set of member targets or a removal of a member target from the first set of member targets;
in response to said detecting, determining that the first set of member targets is not consistent based on at least re-comparing, based on the first sub-template, configurations of the first set of member targets;
in response to determining that the first set of member targets is not consistent, outputting notification data that indicates that the composite target is not consistent.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/192,961Filed 24 Jun 2016 · continuation
Priority: 5 Jan 2015
Published: US 2017/0228649 A110 Aug 2017
Granted: 1 Dec 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06N 5/025
Knowledge engineering; Knowledge acquisition: extracting rules from data
G06F 9/5005
Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU]: to service a request
H04L 41/0843
Configuration by using pre-existing information, e.g. using templates or copying from other elements: based on generic templates
H04L 41/0873
Checking the configuration: checking configuration conflicts between network elements

Family

Application14/589,860Parent of this continuation · filed 5 Jan 2015
US 9,378,461 B1Parent of this continuation · filed 28 Jun 2016
US 2017/0228649 A1Pre-grant publication · published 10 Aug 2017
US 2016/0196496 A1Published application
US 10,853,731 B2This patent

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