Method and apparatus for process enforced configuration management
AssigneeMcAfee, Inc.
InventorsRishi Bhargava, Chiradeep Vittal, Swaroop Sayeram
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Abstract
A system for and method of automatically enforcing a configuration change process for change requests of one or more configurable element within one or more configurable computation systems. The system comprises means for managing a configuration change process for one or more configurable elements within a corresponding configurable computation system, means for generation a configuration request, means for applying a set of authorization rules to the configuration change requests to generate selective authorization of the CEs, and means for selectively locking and unlocking changes to configurable elements within the configurable computational systems.
Claims21
-25. (canceled)
Non-transitory machine readable media that includes software instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by at least one processor, cause the processor to:
- receive, from a configuration management system at an analytics module, a configuration change request for a plurality of configurable elements (CEs) within a configurable computation system (CCS);
- apply, by the analytics module, one or more authorization rules to the configuration change request to generate a selective configuration change authorization for a subset of the CEs meeting the one or more authorization rules;
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- provide, by the analytics module to one or more selective configuration locks in the CCS corresponding to the subset of the CEs over a network, a time window, during which configuration changes are enabled, in the selective configuration change authorization.
Non-transitory machine readable media that includes software instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by at least one processor, cause the processor to:
- receive over a network, from an analytics module, at one of one or more selective configuration locks in a configurable computation system (CCS) corresponding to a subset of configurable elements (CEs), a selective configuration change authorization having a time window during which configuration changes are enabled;
- wherein the selective configuration change authorization is generated at the analytics module by applying one or more authorization rules to a configuration change request, the configuration change request transmitted by a configuration management system for a plurality of CEs within the CCS, to generate the selective configuration change authorization for the subset of the CEs meeting the one or more authorization rules;
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- selectively lock, by the one or more selective configuration locks, the configuration changes by selectively enabling configuration changes to the subset of the CEs according to the time window in the selective configuration change authorization.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.