US 2020/0348978 A1 · METHODS AND SYSTEMS THAT CORRELATE RESOURCE IDENTIFIERS AMONG MANAGEMENT SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS

Abstract

The current document is directed to a resource-identifier-correlation service and/or application that maintains correlation information about the different resource identifiers used by different management applications and/or services within a cloud-computing facility or distributed cloud-computing facility. In one implementation, the resource-identifier-correlation service and/or application continuously monitors streams of inventory/configuration data for different management applications and/or services in order to construct and maintain a database of computational resources and the resource identifiers associated with the computational resources. The resource-identifier-correlation service and/or application includes one or both of a service interface and an application programming interface (“API”) that provide many different functionalities related to identifying and monitoring correlations between resource identifiers used by the different management applications and/or services.

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Dependent claims

A resource-identifier correlation system that provides one or both of a resource-identifier-correlation service and a resource-identifier application-program interface to accessing computational entities, the resource-identifier correlation system comprising:

a set of computational entities that include one or more processors, one or more memories, and one or more data-storage devices;
and
computer instructions that execute on one or more of the one or more processors and that implement
a first component that
receives data streams containing inventory data for each of multiple management services and/or applications that provide management functionalities with respect to a distributed-computing facility, and
processes the received data streams to generate and maintain stored data that represents correlations between synthetic keys generated and used by the multiple management services and/or applications to identify computational resources in the distributed-computing facility, and
a second component that
receives requests from requesting computational entities,
uses the stored data that represents correlations between the synthetic keys used by the multiple management services and/or applications to generate responses to the requests, and
transmits the responses to the requesting computational entities.

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A method for identifying correlations between synthetic keys generated and used by multiple management services and/or applications to identify computational resources within a distributed computing facility, the method comprising:

receiving, by a first component of a resource-identifier-correlation service, data streams containing inventory data for each of the multiple management services and/or applications that provide management functionalities with respect to a distributed-computing facility;
processing, by the first component of a resource-identifier-correlation service, the received data streams to generate and maintain stored data that represents correlations between synthetic keys generated and used by the multiple management services and/or applications to identify computational resources in the distributed-computing facility;
receiving, by a second component of a resource-identifier-correlation service, requests from requesting computational entities,
using, by the second component of a resource-identifier-correlation service, the stored data that represents correlations between the synthetic keys used by the multiple management services and/or applications to generate responses to the requests, and
transmitting, by the second component of a resource-identifier-correlation service, the responses to the requesting computational entities.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Methods and systems that correlate resource identifiers among management services and applications

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Methods and systems that correlate resource identifiers among management services and applications

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Abstract

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