Device, method and computer program readable medium for support of maintaining a system
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMichael E. Factor, Shlomit Sarah Pinter, Aviad Zlotnick
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Abstract
Method, device and computer program product for support of maintaining a system. The method includes: evaluating a current system state and detecting a first lattice element corresponding to the current system state; locating at least one state improvement path, within a lattice that represents states of the system, between the first lattice element and a second lattice element representative of a target system state; determining, for at least one state improvement path, rules that should be satisfied in order to reach the system target state; and determining how to fulfill the rules associated with at least one state improvement path.
Claims14
A computer implemented method for support of maintaining a computer system, the method comprising:
- evaluating a current system state and detecting a first lattice element corresponding to the current system state;
- locating at least one state improvement path within a lattice that represents states of the computer system, between the first lattice element and a second lattice element representative of a target system state;
- wherein an order of lattice elements in the lattice corresponds to a quality of states represented by the lattice elements,
- determining, for at least one state improvement path, rules that should be satisfied in order to reach the system target state;
- and determining how to fulfill the rules associated with at least one state improvement path;
- wherein at least one rule that should be satisfied in order to reach the system target state that creates a physical configuration of hardware objects in the computer system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.