US 2017/0373933 A1Published application

Intelligent configuration discovery techniques

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsHARIHARAN SUBRAMANIAN, Vijay Dheeraj Reddy Mandadi, CRISTIAN GABRIEL GAFTON, Karthikeyan Natarajan, Ramapulla Reddy Chennuru, Kashfat Khan, Venkata Satya Siva Kumar Balaga

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Abstract

At a configuration discovery service, a unique service-side identifier is generated for a configuration item based on analysis of a data set obtained from a first data source. A determination is made that a second data set, which does not contain the service-side identifier and is obtained from a different data source, also includes information pertaining to the same configuration item. A coalesced configuration record for the configuration item is prepared. The coalesced configuration record is stored at a repository and used to respond to a programmatic query.

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Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

one or more computing devices of a network-accessible configuration discovery service;
wherein the one or more computing devices are configured to:
receive, from a first data source, a first data set pertaining to configuration items associated with a particular client,
generate, based at least in part on analysis of the first data set, a service-side identifier for a particular configuration item associated with the particular client, wherein the first data set includes a first data-source-side identifier of the first configuration item, and wherein the first data set includes a first collection of one or more attributes of the particular configuration item;
receive, from a second data source, a second data set pertaining to configuration items associated with the particular client;
determine that the second data set includes a second collection of one or more attributes of the particular configuration item, and wherein the second data set does not include the first data-source-side identifier;
update, based at least in part on a first trust score associated with the first data source, and based at least in part on a second trust score associated with the second data source, a coalesced configuration record corresponding to the particular configuration item, wherein the coalesced configuration record comprises a plurality of attributes of the particular configuration item;
in response to a query received via a programmatic interface, transmit a representation of at least a portion of the coalesced configuration record.

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A method, comprising:

performing, by one or more computing devices of a network-accessible configuration discovery service;
generating, based at least in part on analysis of a first data set produced by a first configuration data source, a service-side identifier for a particular configuration item associated with a particular client, wherein the first data set includes a first collection of one or more attributes of the particular configuration item;
determining that a second data set includes a second collection of one or more attributes of the particular configuration item, wherein the second data set does not include the service-side identifier;
updating, based at least in part on a first trust score associated with the first configuration data source, a first coalesced configuration record corresponding to the particular configuration item;
and
in response to a query received via a programmatic interface, transmitting a representation of at least a portion of the first coalesced configuration record.

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A non-transitory computer-accessible storage medium storing program instructions that when executed on one or more processors:

generate, based at least in part on analysis of a first data set provided by a first configuration data source, a service-side identifier for a particular configuration item associated with a particular client, wherein the first data set includes a first collection of one or more attributes of the particular configuration item, and wherein the first data set does not include the service-side identifier;
determine that a second data set includes a second collection of one or more attributes of the particular configuration item, wherein the second data set does not include the service-side identifier;
update, based at least in part on a first trust score associated with the first configuration data source, a first coalesced configuration record corresponding to the particular configuration item;
and
in response to a query received via a programmatic interface, transmit a representation of at least a portion of the first coalesced configuration record.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/189,979Filed 22 Jun 2016
Published: 28 Dec 2017
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Classification9 codes

H04L 41/0806
Configuration setting: for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
G06F 9/5072
Partitioning or combining of resources: grid computing
G06F 16/24578
With adaptation to user needs: using ranking
H04L 41/5058
Network service management, e.g. ensuring proper service fulfilment according to agreements: service discovery by the service manager

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US 10,212,031 B2Related patent
US 2017/0373933 A1This patent

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