Automated predictive change analytics
AssigneeE.S.I. Software Ltd
InventorsBostjan Kaluza, Eyal Oz, Michael Noam, Alexander Sasha Gilenson
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Abstract
A method of evaluating change risk in an IT environment, including collecting environment state snapshots of configuration parameters in the IT environment, invoking a manifest of a change on the environment state snapshots to form simulated environment state snapshots, analyzing the simulated environment state snapshots relative to the environment state snapshots, deriving a risk score based on the analysis and selectively perform the change responsive to the risk score.
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A method of evaluating change risk in an IT environment, comprising:
- collecting environment state snapshots of configuration parameters in the IT environment;
- invoking a manifest of a change on the environment state snapshots to form simulated environment state snapshots;
- wherein the manifest is an object that specifies the changes that will be performed when modifying the environment;
- analyzing the simulated environment state snapshots relative to the environment state snapshots;
- deriving a risk score based on the analysis wherein the risk score includes consideration of a drift pattern;
- wherein configuration parameters representing a sequence of environment components that were consistent having a same value before the change and are not consistent after the change or vice versa assigned a high risk, and configuration parameter that were not consistent before the change and are still not consistent after the change are assigned a low risk selectively performing the change responsive to the risk score.
A computer system for evaluating change risk in an IT environment, comprising:
- a computer with a processor and memory:
- an application configured to be executed by the computer and configured to perform the following;
- collecting environment state snapshots of configuration parameters in the IT environment;
- invoking a manifest of a change on the environment state snapshots to form simulated environment state snapshots;
- wherein the manifest is an object that specifies the changes that will be performed when modifying the environment;
- analyzing the simulated environment state snapshots relative to the environment state snapshots;
- deriving a risk score based on the analysis wherein the risk score includes consideration of a drift pattern;
- wherein configuration parameters representing a sequence of environment components that were consistent having a same value before the change and are not consistent after the change or vice versa are assigned a high risk and configuration parameters that were not consistent before the change and are still not consistent after the change are assigned a low risk selectively performing the change responsive to the risk score.
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