Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080256241 | System and Method for Automatically Managing It-Resources in a Heterogeneous Environment - The present invention provides a system and method for automatically managing IT-resources in a heterogeneous environment on each level of resource abstraction and resource hierarchy by using the concept of the resource-reference object. The resource-reference object represents the link to a referenced resource on a lower level in the hierarchy and may include a priority value assigned by the respective level of hierarchy as well as all information to build a remote request to that referenced resource which may be a single resource or a resource group. Concurrently each resource-reference object itself is accessible from the higher level of hierarchy as an own resource by additional providing a name and a desired state which can differ from desired state of the referenced resource as well as making it externally visible. Resource-reference objects can be grouped to resource groups on the higher level of hierarchy, wherein those resource groups are addressable as own resource-reference object from the next higher level of hierarchy. | 10-16-2008 |
20100064009 | Method and Apparatus for a Common Cluster Model for Configuring, Managing, and Operating Different Clustering Technologies in a Data Center - A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for a common cluster model for configuring, managing, and operating different clustering technologies in a data center. The common cluster model supports peer cluster domains and management server cluster domains. Each cluster domain may have one or more cluster nodes. For each cluster domains, one or more cluster resources may be defined. These resources may depend on one another and may be grouped into a resource group. A set of cluster domain and cluster resources logical device operations are provided to configure, manage, and operate cluster domains and its associated resources. | 03-11-2010 |
20110022560 | SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGIES IN SYSTEM AUTOMATION - A method includes maintaining descriptions of a plurality of information technology resources in a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes maintaining a plurality of evaluation strategies, wherein the evaluation strategies associate a plurality of rules with forms of changes to the plurality of information technology resources. Responsive to detecting a command to change a first property of the set of properties of a first information technology resource of the plurality of information technology resources, the method determines that a first of the evaluation strategies associates at least one of the plurality of rules with a form of the change to the first property of the first information technology resource. Also, responsive to detecting the command, the method evaluates the at least one of the plurality of rules and performs the operation of the at least one rule. | 01-27-2011 |
20110270802 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CHANGES OF REPLICATION DIRECTIONS IN A MULTI-SITE DISASTER RECOVERY ENVIRONMENT FOR HIGH AVAILABLE APPLICATION - The invention relates to a method of controlling the replication status and direction of a storage device in accordance to its availability state. This overall situation of the storage device is being related to the availability state of applications which have a viable dependency to the storage device | 11-03-2011 |
20120215733 | SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGIES IN SYSTEM AUTOMATION - A method includes maintaining descriptions of a plurality of information technology resources in a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes maintaining a plurality of evaluation strategies, wherein the evaluation strategies associate a plurality of rules with forms of changes to the plurality of information technology resources. Responsive to detecting a command to change a first property of the set of properties of a first information technology resource of the plurality of information technology resources, the method determines that a first of the evaluation strategies associates at least one of the plurality of rules with a form of the change to the first property of the first information technology resource. Also, responsive to detecting the command, the method evaluates the at least one of the plurality of rules and performs the operation of the at least one rule. | 08-23-2012 |
20120239810 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CLUSTERED COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT PARTITION RESOLUTION - According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a system and technique for clustered computer environment partition resolution is disclosed. The system includes: a first node couplable to a second node in a clustered network environment; and a storage provider resource accessible by the first and second nodes. The first node comprises logic executable to: create a key; communicate the key to the second node; responsive to detecting a potential partition event, generate a lock code using the key for reserving the storage provider resource; and responsive to determining an unlocked status of the storage provider resource, resolve the partition event by writing the lock code to the storage provider resource. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239814 | CLUSTERED COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT PARTITION RESOLUTION - According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method and technique for clustered computer environment partition resolution is disclosed. For a clustered environment having a plurality of nodes, the method includes: creating a key by a first node of the plurality of clustered nodes, the plurality of clustered nodes each configured to have access to a storage provider resource; communicating the key to remaining nodes of the plurality of clustered nodes; responsive to detecting a potential partition event, generating by at least one of the plurality of clustered nodes a lock code using the key for reserving the storage provider resource; and responsive to determining an unlocked status of the storage provider resource, resolving the partition event by writing the lock code to the storage provider resource. | 09-20-2012 |
20120260128 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CHANGES OF REPLICATION DIRECTIONS IN A MULTI-SITE DISASTER RECOVERY ENVIRONMENT FOR HIGH AVAILABLE APPLICATION - A running of an application resource of a first site of at least two sites is stopped from accessing a storage device of the first site. A running of a replication resource is brought to a stop. The replication resource is configured to control a replication of data between the storage device on the first site on which data from the running application resource on the first site are stored to the storage device on the second site. A replication request is submitted to the automation engine for changing a replication direction to run from the second site to the first site. The application resource is started on the second site only after changing the replication direction to start from the storage device on the second site instead of from the storage device of the first site. | 10-11-2012 |
20130275805 | PROVIDING APPLICATION BASED MONITORING AND RECOVERY FOR A HYPERVISOR OF AN HA CLUSTER - An embodiment of the invention is directed to a method associated with a node comprising a hypervisor and guest VMs, each guest VM being managed by the hypervisor and disposed to run applications, the node being joined with other nodes to form an HA cluster. The method includes establishing an internal bidirectional communication channel between each guest VM and the hypervisor, and further includes sending commands and responses thereto through the channel, wherein respective commands manage a specified application running on the given guest VM. The messages are selectively monitored, to detect a failure condition associated with the specified application running on the given guest VM. Responsive to detecting a failure condition, action is taken to correct the failure condition, wherein the action includes sending at least one command through the internal channel from the hypervisor to the given guest VM. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275966 | PROVIDING APPLICATION BASED MONITORING AND RECOVERY FOR A HYPERVISOR OF AN HA CLUSTER - An embodiment of the invention is directed to a method associated with a node comprising a hypervisor and guest VMs, each guest VM being managed by the hypervisor and disposed to run applications, the node being joined with other nodes to form an HA cluster. The method includes establishing an internal bidirectional communication channel between each guest VM and the hypervisor, and further includes sending commands and responses thereto through the channel, wherein respective commands manage a specified application running on the given guest VM. The messages are selectively monitored, to detect a failure condition associated with the specified application running on the given guest VM. Responsive to detecting a failure condition, action is taken to correct the failure condition, wherein the action includes sending at least one command through the internal channel from the hypervisor to the given guest VM. | 10-17-2013 |